F19 upgrade pulls in a lot of i686 packages

[Steve Grubb]

On Saturday, June 29, 2013 06:15:49 PM Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:34:09 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > Did anyone notice all the i686 packages that get pulled in if you try to
> > upgrade from F18? My system has no i686 packages on it today. But
> > when I try to upgrade it starts getting i686 dependencies pulled in. It
> > starts like this:
> > 
> > ---> Package mesa-libEGL.x86_64 0:9.2-0.7.20130528.fc18 will be updated
> > ---> Package mesa-libEGL.x86_64 0:9.2-0.12.20130610.fc19 will be an update
> > ---> Package mesa-libEGL-devel.i686 0:9.2-0.12.20130610.fc19 will be
> > obsoleting --> Processing Dependency: libEGL.so.1 for package:
> > mesa-libEGL-devel-9.2-0.12.20130610.fc19.i686 ---> Package
> > mesa-libEGL-devel.x86_64 0:9.2-0.12.20130610.fc19 will be obsoleting
> That's the dangerous noarch -> arch switch. khrplatform-devel.noarch
> is an old subpackage from "mesa".
> 
> Package mesa-libEGL-devel for both i686 and x86_64 Obsoletes and Provides
> khrplatform-devel:
>   http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=427384

Yes, this is exactly the problem. I suppose F19 instructions might need to be  
updated to say delete the package using "rpm -e --nodeps" and then it should 
get pulled back in by dependency without pulling in all the i686 stuff. Doing 
that let me get to the next problem. Someone else asked how I was doing the 
upgrade...using this:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum

Do we really still need to run grub2-install as the instructions say in 
preparing for reboot? It errors out with some warning about ext2 file systems 
not being supported even though its ext3. Then reboot fails saying error: 
symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found.

-Steve