[BlueOnyx:13565] Re: Cron <root at www> /usr/sausalito/handlers/base/swupdate/yum-update.sh

[Gerald Waugh]

On 08/17/2013 01:50 PM, Michael Stauber wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>> Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.
>> perl-Sys-Hostname-FQDN-0.11-1.i386 was supposed to be removed but is not!
> Yes and I noticed it first. Really. :-)
>
> The problem arose when I tried to build the updated 5108R installation
> CD. The CD built, but the resulting OS wasn't running any CCEd
> Constructors as all of them were throwing Perl related errors.
>
> Deeper investigation made clear that the root cause of the problem was
> perl-Sys-Hostname-FQDN-0.11-1.
>
> About three months ago I had modified base-system.mod to also require
> perl-Sys-Hostname-FQDN:
>
> http://devel.blueonyx.it/trac/changeset/954/BlueOnyx/ui/base-system.mod
>
> Because it is now used by
> /usr/sausalito/constructor/base/system/10_addSystem.pl to set the
> servers hostname in a more reliable fashion than we used before.
>
> When the dependency for perl-Sys-Hostname-FQDN was added, I published
> the respective perl-Sys-Hostname-FQDN RPMs to the 5106R, 5107R and 5108R
> YUM repositories.
>
> However, I made a mistake: The 5108R YUM repository contained the i386
> version of that RPM and not the correct x86_64 RPM. The i386 RPM simply
> doesn't work on a 64-bit Linux.
>
> So last night when I discovered this culprit, I published the correct
> x86_64 RPM of perl-Sys-Hostname-FQDN to the 5108R YUM repository and
> bumped the version number from 0.11-1 to 0.11-2 to make sure it would
> get installed.
>
> Sadly, the YUM install is unable to remove the faulty i386 version of
> said RPM. Which all by itself doesn't cause any problems, although it's
> a small cosmetic nuisance.
>
> So you can ignore that warning message.
>
> \

thanks for the explanation

-- 
Gerald