Problems with update -- redhat-lsb conflicts

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:55:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:

> >   rpm -e --test redhat-lsb.i686
> 
> Oddly either of the redhat-lsb packages can be removed, but not both:
> # rpm -e --test redhat-lsb.i686
> # rpm -e --test redhat-lsb.x86_64
> # rpm -e --test redhat-lsb.i686 redhat-lsb.x86_64
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         lsb >= 3.2 is needed by (installed) google-earth-stable-6.0.3.2197-0.x86_64
>         lsb >= 3.2 is needed by (installed) google-earth-stable-6.0.3.2197-0.x86_64
> 

"lsb >= 3.2" is a dependency on an arch-independent capability. This
dependency is not specific enough to include an architecture. Either one
of the packages provides this:

  # repoquery --whatprovides lsb
  redhat-lsb-0:4.0-11.fc17.x86_64
  redhat-lsb-0:4.1-4.fc17.x86_64
  redhat-lsb-0:4.0-11.fc17.i686

> Also, despite being advertised as an x86_64 package, google-earth actually runs in 32 bit mode:
> # file /opt/google/earth/free/googleearth-bin
> /opt/google/earth/free/googleearth-bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV)...
> 
> Since I don't understand the situation, I plan to not remove either of
> the redhat-lsb modules.

Fortunately, redhat-lsb contains just a few files as it is more of a meta
package that adds many dependencies to meet the LSB requirements. The few
files in redhat-lsb itself are of limited use and very special. One would
need to examine google-earth in detail to find out whether it wants any
of those files, too, and not just the many dependencies that make an
installation LSB >= 3.2 compliant.

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