[Yum] yum and x86_64 patches

[J J Urich]

Redhat installs both an i386/i686 and x86_64 versions of 47 RPM's when 
you do an install and select the "Everything" option.  This appears to 
present a problem when using yum to update patches as there appears to 
be no way to do a --nodeps rpm equivalent.  To give one example of a 
package with multiple arch'es load and patching problems let's look at 
trying to patch samba on a freshly loaded x86_64 machine:

Here proof the i386 and x86_64 version are loaded:
# grep samba- /root/install.log
Installing samba-common-3.0.0-14.3E.x86_64.
Installing samba-client-3.0.0-14.3E.x86_64.
Installing samba-3.0.0-14.3E.i386.
Installing samba-3.0.0-14.3E.x86_64.
Installing redhat-config-samba-1.0.16-1.noarch.

Here's what happens when I patch by hand w/ RPM (get the same dependency 
error when using yum):

# ls
samba-3.0.2-6.3E.i386.rpm    samba-client-3.0.2-6.3E.i386.rpm 
samba-common-3.0.2-6.3E.i386.rpm
samba-3.0.2-6.3E.x86_64.rpm  samba-client-3.0.2-6.3E.x86_64.rpm 
samba-common-3.0.2-6.3E.x86_64.rpm

[root at dpmlh090 patches]# rpm -Fvh `ls`
error: Failed dependencies:
         libreadline.so.4 is needed by samba-client-3.0.2-6.3E

The readline installed is the 64 bit version not the 32, so when you try 
and patch the i386 version of sambe you've got problems...  I opened a 
ticket on this w/ redhat and they said for patching to work I have to 
specify both the i386 and x86_64 version as shown above and patch with 
the --nodeps option for the packages that multiple arch's are loaded 
for.  Up2date handles this and patches correctly.  Has any one else run 
into this and found a work around with yum or am I missing something???

Thanks in advance...

JJ
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JJ Urich
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The University of Iowa
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Email: jjurich at divms dot uiowa dot edu
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