On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 05:16:36PM -0500, Styma, Robert E (Robert) alleged:

I just loaded CentOS 5 on a new x86_64 machine I built for my wife. I am converting her from the dark $ide. :-)

I started getting the following messages from yum:

]: yum update

Updating: subversion x86_64 1.4.3-0.1.el5.rf rpmforge 4.4 M

[..snip..]

Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psvn.el from install of subversion-1.4.3-0.1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-2.el5 file /usr/share/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/psvn.el from install of subversion-1.4.3-0.1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-2.el5

Error Summary

[styma14]: rpm -e subversion-1.4.2-2.el5 error: "subversion-1.4.2-2.el5" specifies multiple packages [styma14]: rpm -qa | grep subversion subversion-1.4.2-2.el5 subversion-1.4.2-2.el5

###################################### It appears I have a package installed twice. I tried the normal "rpm is damaged" sequence of:

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages rpm --rebuilddb

But that did not help the situation. Are there any suggestions on how to get rid of this one piece and get past this error? I tried a -f on the rpm -e and it failed the same way.

'rpm -q --qf '%{NAME} %{ARCH}\n' subversion will show that you have i386 and x86_64 packages installed, which is normal. The rpmforge repo seems to only have the x86_64 version, leaving the newer x86_64 package to conflict with the older i386 package.

Options: 1) Disable rpmforge 2) Exclude subversion from rpmforge .repo 3) 'rpm -e --allmatches subversion; yum install subversion'