yum - file conflicts when updating from i?86 to x86_64

[Bill McGonigle]

Hi, all,

I had an interesting time updating a machine from i686 to x86_64 last 
night.  I wound up using rpm alot, and would rather have used yum more, 
but for problems like the one noted below (just one example out of a 
large number of similar instances).

Is there a way to get yum to not fret about file conflicts when 
replacing one arch with another with the same base package name?

Dependency resolution and RPM seems to be happy, but the transaction 
check (OK, I don't really know what that means) doesn't seem to 
understand what's happening.

Thanks,
-Bill

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--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: tor-core = 0.2.0.35-1.fc11 for package: 
tor-lsb-0.2.0.35-1.fc11.noarch
---> Package tor-core.x86_64 0:0.2.1.19-2.fc12 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package tor-lsb.noarch 0:0.2.1.19-2.fc12 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
  Package          Arch           Version                   Repository 
     Size
================================================================================
Updating:
  tor-core         x86_64         0.2.1.19-2.fc12           fedora 
    956 k
Updating for dependencies:
  tor-lsb          noarch         0.2.1.19-2.fc12           fedora 
     12 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install       0 Package(s)
Upgrade       2 Package(s)

Total size: 968 k
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
   file /etc/tor/torrc from install of tor-core-0.2.1.19-2.fc12.x86_64 
conflicts with file from package tor-core-0.2.0.35-1.fc11.i586
   file /usr/share/man/man1/tor.1.gz from install of 
tor-core-0.2.1.19-2.fc12.x86_64 conflicts with file from package 
tor-core-0.2.0.35-1.fc11.i586
   file /usr/share/tor/geoip from install of 
tor-core-0.2.1.19-2.fc12.x86_64 conflicts with file from package 
tor-core-0.2.0.35-1.fc11.i586




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