FC5 -> FC6 upgrade bombing out with elfutils errors

[Jim Cornette]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade an FC5-x86_64 system to FC6-x86_64 via yum (yes,
> i know this is unsupported).  I've done 4 upgrades already like this,
> but they were all x86, rather than x86_64, so this is my first 64bit
> upgrade.  The yum upgrade process keeps failing with a ton of
> dependency errors related to elfutils & elfutils-libelf.  Anyone else
> run into this?
> 

Do you have both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions installed? Is something 
else pulling in dependencies for either package that is causing the 
problem? Have you tried to run update on the libelf packages first since 
they are causing the conflict?

Unfortunately, I have no 64-bit machine to help.
Jim

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