hal + pam update errors

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:54:36 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:

> > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235152
> > > > 
> > > > It would be nice if someone could tell me how to resolve this; last I
> > > > checked all the rpm/yum wizards (including jkeating and skvidal) were
> > > > all scratching their heads. Thanks.
> > > 
> > > The error smells a lot like an i386<->x86_64 conflict.
> > > Old i386 pkg versus new x86_64 pkg.
> > > 
> > > Indeed, Rawhide only contains hal-0.5.9-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm and no hal.i386
> > > 
> > > Whether you can obsolete an i386 pkg from within an x86_64 pkg, I don't know.
> > 
> > you can't do an arch-specific obsolete. At best it'll grab all of them.
> > and that's at _best_.
> 
> So should I undo the split of hal into hal and hal-libs? Please advise.
> Thanks.

Making hal-libs obsolete hal will work, as hal-libs.i386 will then
replace the old hal.i386 also for x86_64.