Conflict brought on by gaim -> pidgin move.

Naoki naoki at valuecommerce.com
Fri Apr 20 07:38:45 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 22:05 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Naoki wrote:
> > As of two updates ago (20070418) gstreamer.i386 and many other i386
> > packages are wanting to be installed along with my x86_64 packages, and
> > that eventually causes conflict.
> > 
> > Seems to be that the replacement for my gaim.x86_64 is pidgin.i386 &
> > pidgin.x86_64, surely just the latter is required ?
> > 
> 
> 
> You told it to install pidgin.  You didn't specify which architecture to 
> install for.  Yum found two and is trying to install both.  Add 
> "exactarch=1" to your yum.conf to get the behavior you appear to expect.

Not exactly, I only have "gaim-2.0.0-0.31.beta6.fc7.x86_64" installed,
and I'm doing a 'yum upgrade'. For some reason it's trying to replace
the one 64-bit package with both 64/32-bit versions of pidgin. Not seen
that before.

> That said, you should file a bug against gstreamer for your manpage 
> conflict.

Aye, will do!





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