OK, we found and fixed the problem.

RedHat doesn't have enough mozilla stuff in x86_64 to actually run 
mozilla in 32 bit mode.  But we wanted out users to be able to run 
mozilla (and firefox) in 32 bit mode on their x86_64, so that their 
plugins would work.

Well, with out new scripts, we download and verify, that what we have in 
our errata, matches what RedHat has in their errata.
But, since RedHat doesn't have all the i386 mozilla files, we didn't get 
them put in.

Now the sticky bit, which is why I missed this, was that I know for S.L. 
3.0.x, I specifically checked for the i386 rpm's in the x86_64.  So in 
my mind, I checked for this problem.  But I really hadn't checked both 
places.

Anyway, it's currently fixed, and we're figuring out a way to modify our 
script so that it has another exception for mozilla and firefox.

Thanks for reporting this, and thanks for being patient.

Troy

Troy Dawson wrote:
> That's strange, because yes, this was something I checked, and on both 
> SL42 and SL41.  But as I look, I had the x86_64 versions installed.
> Can you send the output of
> 
>   rpm -qa | grep mozilla
> 
> and if there isn't any arch's on the end of the rpm's send a
> 
>   yum list mozilla\*
> 
> That way we can setup a test problem and hopefully be able to fix it 
> easier.
> 
> Troy
> 
> Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Overnight Yum errata:-
>>> Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla-nspr = 37:1.7.12-1.4.2 is needed 
>>> by package mozilla
>>> Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla-nss = 37:1.7.12-1.4.2 is needed by 
>>> package mozilla
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure whether this is helpful, but I can report that I just
>> updated a SL4.2 i386-architecture system successfully. (with yum).
>>
>> It wanted to update firefox (1 package) and mozilla (6 packages,
>> including the two mentioned above), and the update completed normally.
>>
>>
>>> Note: Although it's the x86_64 distro I have the i386 mozilla packages.
>>
>>
>>
>> So it's 4.1 versus 4.2, and x86_64 versus i386.
>>
>> Hope this is vaguely useful, anyhow.
> 
> 
> 


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