Howto handle multilib conflict?

[Jesse Keating]

On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 16:13 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 18:56 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> > Just received:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528237
> > 
> > yum install libotf-devel.i586 libotf-devel.x86_64
> > 
> > yields:
> > 
> > Transaction Check Error:
> >   file /usr/bin/libotf-config from install of libotf-devel-0.9.8-2.fc11.i586
> > conflicts with file from package libotf-devel-0.9.8-2.fc11.x86_64
> >   file /usr/share/doc/libotf-devel-0.9.8/example/Makefile from install of
> > libotf-devel-0.9.8-2.fc11.i586 conflicts with file from package
> > libotf-devel-0.9.8-2.fc11.x86_64
> > 
> > What is the recommended way to resolve this?
> 
> It's not to be considered a bug, AFAIK. We don't stipulate that
> development packages be installable side-by-side in this way, we only
> stipulate that for library packages where there's a need for it. There's
> no particular use case where you absolutely need both -devel packages
> installed at once.
> 
> -- 
> Adam Williamson
> Fedora QA Community Monkey
> IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
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> 

Actually this is a bug.  If the packages are offered in the same repo,
they should install together (barring explicit conflicts listed in the
spec file).  Looks like the example makefile may be generated at build
time, or touched in someway so that it is different when on i686 and
x86_64.  That should not happen, they should be the same.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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