On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 11:01 -0600, Sam Sharpe wrote: > On 6 December 2010 00:57, Robert G. (Doc) Savage <[email protected]> wrote: > > Attention EPEL maintainers: > > > > An error occurred during today's update of two similar (but not > > identical) packages in EPEL5: > > > > ======================================================================================= > > Package Arch Version Repository > > Size > > ======================================================================================= > > Updating: > > dd_rescue x86_64 1.23-1.el5 epel > > 44 k > > ddrescue x86_64 1.13-1.el5 epel > > 62 k > > > > Transaction Check Error: > > file /usr/share/info/ddrescue.info.gz from install of > > ddrescue-1.13-1.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package > > ddrescue-1.8-2.el5.i386 > > > > I suspect both tried to use the file name "ddrescue.info.gz", resulting > > in a collision in /usr/share/info/. One probably should have been named > > "dd_rescue.info.gz". > > Noo... > > You have ddrescue-1.8-2.el5.i386 installed. You are now installing the > 64bit version, without uninstalling the 32bit version - that's where > the error lies - yum doesn't realise that the 64bit RPM should replace > that 32bit RPM you have installed.
Sam, Dang! You're right. I missed that little detail. How'd that happen, I wonder...? The 32-bitter didn't show itself with 'rpm -qa | grep rescue'. Had to use yumex to find & remove it. Thanks for spotting that. --Doc _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
