fedora errors

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 22:09 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
> 2008/7/11 Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com>:
> > Mark Haney wrote:
> >>
> >> Glen Grantham wrote:
> >>>
> >>> My system is an AMD 64 Athlon X2 4600+ on a
> >>> GIGABYTE  S-Series GA-MA74GM-S2H motherboard
> >>> with a 320GB EIDE WD Caviar SE 7200RPM Hard Drive
> >>>
> >>> 64 bit Fedora Linux Identity Kit
> >>>
> >>> ERROR List from upgrade after initial installing system with Fedora 8
> >>>
> >>> When I try to install the 280 or so upgraded pacaages I get this:
> >>>
> >>> file /usr/lib/libnm-util.so.0.0.0 from install of
> >>> NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0-0.6.9.svn3675.fc8 conflicts with file from package
> >>> NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.5.svn3030.fc8
> >>> file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf from install of
> >>> NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.9.svn3675.fc8 conflicts with file from package
> >>
> >> Well, we didn't really need every single line, since most of them are
> >> similar to the first 2 or three listed.  However, try removing Network
> >> Manager and then installing it.  That should get you the upgraded version
> >> and getting rid of the errors you are seeing.
> >
> > The problem is that NM does NOT provide the 32-bit libraries any more in
> > the multilib (64- and 32-bit) environment.  To fix:
> >
> >        yum remove NetworkManager.i386
> >
> > since you don't need the 32-bit version.  Then "yum update" should work.
> >
> 
> I had the same problem with NetworkManager updates. I've just tried
> 'yum remove NetworkManager.i386' and, intriguingly:
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> =============================================================================
> Removing:
>  NetworkManager          i386       1:0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3370.fc8
> installed         2.4 M
> Removing for dependencies:
>  NetworkManager-glib     i386       1:0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3370.fc8
> installed         103 k
>  NetworkManager-openvpn  i386       1:0.7.0-8.svn3302.fc8  installed
>       486 k
>  NetworkManager-vpnc     i386       1:0.7.0-0.6.3.svn3109.fc8
> installed         309 k
>  evolution               i386       2.12.3-5.fc8     installed          36 M
> 
> 
> As I don't use evolution on this machine (and probably have the 64bit
> version anyway), I don't care too much, but this seems to be a bizarre
> dependency chain.

If you have it it doesn't matter if you use it or not. Evo needs NM to
check if the network is up and go into offline mode if not (i.e. it
assumes NM is always right, which is optimistic IMHO).

poc