More and more yum dependency problems

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 12:36 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 7:52 AM +0100 8/3/05, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 17:19 -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote:
>  ...
> 
> >My understanding of the way Fedora multilib support works is that rpm
> >will allow you to simultaneously install .i386 and .x86_64 versions of
> >exactly the same package and it won't complain about file conflicts - it
> >just ignores the .i386 versions of conflicting files. This is how it was
> >possible for .i386 and .x86_64 versions of perl to coexist in FC3. If
> >you then try to update one but not the other, it breaks because the
> >epoch/version/release numbers aren't the same and the file conflicts are
> >no longer ignored.
> >
> >The OP's file conflicts were:
> >   file /usr/bin/mozilla from install of
> >mozilla-1.7.10-1.5.1 conflicts with file from package mozilla-1.7.8-2
> >  file /usr/share/man/man1/mozilla.1.gz from install of
> >mozilla-1.7.10-1.5.1 conflicts with file from package mozilla-1.7.8-2
> >
> >Different versions/releases, so that's why there was a conflict.
> 
> In such cases, a more explicit error message would be very helpful.
> Something like "Multi-lib support conflict (.i386 package <foo-version1>
> vs. .x86_64 package <foor-version2>):", followed by the conflicts.

I suspect that this error message comes directly from rpm rather than
from yum. Although it's quite easy to diagnose this issue once you've
seen it a few times, I think it could be made much more obvious simply
by adding the arch information where the conflicting packages are of
different architectures:

file /usr/bin/mozilla from install of mozilla-1.7.10-1.5.1.x86_64
conflicts with file from package mozilla-1.7.8-2.i386

Worth a bugzilla RFE perhaps?

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>