Greetings.  We're running a mixture of Redhat Enterprise Linux, version 
3 (RHEL 3) and Scientific Linux version 3 (SL 3).  We happen to be 
running RHEL on our AMD (Opteron) workstations, simply because SL either 
wasn't available for them or wasn't on our radar when we got the 
workstations.

Redhat has recently announced a patch (or patch set?) for openoffice. 
We've tried on two different Opteron, x86_64 systems to install the 
patch.  It fails on both of them in weird ways, as, for instance:

# /usr/sbin/up2date --update --nox
Invalid group id server-cfg

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-ws-3...

Fetching rpm headers...
########################################

Name                                    Version        Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
openoffice.org                          1.1.2          24.2.0.EL3 
  i386
openoffice.org-i18n                     1.1.2          24.2.0.EL3 
  i386
openoffice.org-libs                     1.1.2          24.2.0.EL3 
  i386


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
There was a package dependency problem. The message was:

Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
openoffice.org-libs  1.1.2-24.2.0.EL3    requires libbonobo-activation.so.4
openoffice.org-libs  1.1.2-24.2.0.EL3    requires libgnomevfs-2.so.0

We tried just removing all of the openoffice* stuff and reinstalling. 
The results are at least equally strange:

]# up2date openoffice
Invalid group id server-cfg

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-ws-3...

Fetching rpm headers...
########################################

Name                                    Version        Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
openoffice                              1.0.2          8 
  i386


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
########################################
openoffice-1.0.2-8.i386.rpm ########################## Done.
There was a package dependency problem. The message was:
Dependencies should have already been resolved, but they are not.

On the other hand, if we do a "yum update" on our SL 3.0.3, i386 
systems, the new openoffice stuff installs perfectly.

I'd appreciate hearing comments, suggestions, etc., about this.

Thanks.

					- Mike
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