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

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