smart suggests wrong updates

[Pete Pamz]

Hello,

while updating my servers with smart, i figured out, that smart suggests an update with a wrong architecture. This might be very dangerous when you are updating a productive System. In my case it hit up the glibc package:

Here are some information about my system:

system:SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586) SP2
kernel: 2.6.16.60-0.31-bigsmp
smart version: smart-1.1-5.1
python versions: python-2.4.2-18.25, python-xml-2.4.2-18.25, python-elementtree-1.2.6-25.1

 ... and the output to show the error:

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test33:~ # smart upgrade --download --dump glibc
Loading cache...
Updating cache... ####################################################################################### [100%]

Computing transaction...
glibc-2.4-31.58@i686

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test33:~ # rpm -qpi /var/lib/smart/packages/glibc-2.4-31.58.i686.rpm
Name : glibc Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 2.4 Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Release : 31.58 Build Date: Thu Oct 16 18:28:14 2008
Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: stravinsky.suse.de
Group : System/Libraries Source RPM: glibc-2.4-31.58.src.rpm
Size : 4563908 License: BSD 3-Clause; GPL v2 or later; LGPL v2.1 or later
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu Oct 16 18:32:04 2008, Key ID a84edae89c800aca
Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org
URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Summary : Standard Shared Libraries (from the GNU C Library)
Description :
The GNU C Library provides the most important standard libraries used
by nearly all programs: the standard C library, the standard math
library, and the POSIX thread library. A system is not functional
without these libraries.
Distribution: SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 (i686)

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test33:~ # rpm -qi glibc
Name : glibc Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 2.4 Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Release : 31.54 Build Date: Tue Apr 22 00:43:41 2008
Install Date: Mon Feb 23 13:56:33 2009 Build Host: james.suse.de
Group : System/Libraries Source RPM: glibc-2.4-31.54.src.rpm
Size : 4512631 License: BSD 3-Clause; GPL v2 or later; LGPL v2.1 or later
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue Apr 22 00:48:02 2008, Key ID a84edae89c800aca
Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org
URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Summary : Standard Shared Libraries (from the GNU C Library)
Description :
The GNU C Library provides the most important standard libraries used
by nearly all programs: the standard C library, the standard math
library, and the POSIX thread library. A system is not functional
without these libraries.
Distribution: SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 (i586)

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test33:~ # rpm -q glibc --qf '%{NAME} %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH} \n'
glibc 2.4 31.54 i586

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test33:~ # rpm -qp /var/lib/smart/packages/glibc-2.4-31.58.i686.rpm --qf '%{NAME} %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH} \n'
glibc 2.4 31.58 i686

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[Gustavo Niemeyer (niemeyer)]

Are you using a patched version of Smart?

Smart doesn't even load into the cache a package of an incorrect architecture.

Can you please attach to the bug the directory /usr/lib/python2.*/site-packages/smart?

[Anders F Björklund (afb)]

I think http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=smart
should have the smart-1.1-5.1.src.rpm with the patches

One could also try what the archscore is:
$ python
>>> import rpm
>>> print rpm.archscore("i686")

[Pete Pamz (ppanz)]

I was using the Version of smart, downloadable at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/smart/openSUSE_10.3/i586/smart-1.1-5.1.i586.rpm
Could that be the problem? (The system was SLES10 SP2)

I cannot paste the /usr/lib/python2.*/site-packages/smart directory to the bug right now, i received that error on a testsystem where i install and install and install..., so the Installation with the system with that smart-Version is lost. Perhaps i have the possibility to reinstall the system with the same packages and smart-version within the next days, then i can report the files and will see if the Problem is reproduceble.

The phython-directory should also be in the rpmfile, isn´t it. You think it would be necessary to reinstall the system.

[Anders F Björklund (afb)]

Could you try to determine what "rpm.archscore" returns for say i386, i586 and i686 on that system ? (see above)

[Pete Pamz (ppanz)]

Hello,

now i have the output of "rpm.archscore"

test12:~ # rpm -q python
python-2.4.2-18.25

test12:~ # cat /tmp/python-arch.py
import rpm
print rpm.archscore("i386")
print rpm.archscore("i586")
print rpm.archscore("i686")
print rpm.archscore("x86_64")

test12:~ # python /tmp/python-arch.py
5
3
2
0

[Anders F Björklund (afb)]

OK, so your RPM prefers i686 and then i586 and will settle for i386 while x86_64 is incompatible.

Sounds like your platform is off, and that it thinks that it is a i686 ? Maybe edit /etc/rpm/platform