x86-64 rawhide update obnoxiousness

[Paul Jakma]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> So...am I the only one who regularly runs into trouble trying to follow
> rawhide on x86-64?  Recent example: an update just failed with:
>
> 	Transaction Check Error:   file /usr/share/man/man5/ldap.conf.5.gz from install of openldap-2.2.28-2 conflicts with file from package openldap-2.2.26-1
>
> ...and so on.  The problem is always conflicts between the x86-64 and
> i386 versions of packages.

> Interestingly, if I do "yum update openldap", it will update the 
> package for both architectures, and the problem goes away.

Note that is a really /really/ nasty aspect of yum. It essentially 
force installs (AFAICT) and clobbers the files which are in both 
packages. Not a problem if they're arch-independent, but if the 
packaging error is for an arch-dependent file on or other of the 
arches will be broken.

I wish yum wouldn't do force installs, it makes me *very* nervous 
about using yum on multi-arch machines.

regards,
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