Jim Perrin wrote:
On 4/11/06, Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey@buc.com wrote:
I updated my i386 systems without any problems, but when I tried to update one of my x86_64 systems, I got an error from yum.
Transaction Check Error: file /usr/include/libdevmapper.h from install of device-mapper-1.02.02-3.0.RHEL4 conflicts with file from package device-mapper-1.01.04-1.0.RHEL4
So it can't install the newer package because it conflicts with the older package??? What's going on here?
Should I force the upgrade in this case, or is there a better solution?
That doesn't look right. Create a ~/.rpmmacros file for your user and root with the following line
%_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}
then rerun yum and see if the arch values listed are the same. With the line above, instead of device-mapper-1.01.04-1.0.RHEL4 it should show up as device-mapper-1.01.04-1.0.RHEL4.x86_64
Did that, but it didn't seem to affect anything. But you did manage to jump-start a few brain cells.
Yum was installing the x86_64 version because of a dependency. The i386 package was also installed, but wasn't being upgraded. Once I specified device-mapper on the yum update line, it grabbed both packages and continued on.
Thanks for the help!