On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 13:49 -0400, Nat Gross wrote:
On 4/26/06, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
If it does want the 32-bit version it shouldn't hurt anything to install it with: yum install xorg-x11-libs.i386 I needed that for VMware server recently and posted here about a conflict with fontconfig from the 64-bit version. I think that's a bug but someone responded with a workaround:
rpm -e --justdb --nodeps fontconfig
which is very very wrong, and if you really care about this, dont do it. find the solution to the problem, rather than just using a hammer to break your system even more.
Now, that I did do that, how do I reverse it?
Karanbir and I are solving this issue right now ... we should have a fix later that will work for CentOS users (I hope).
Just for the record, the upstream provider knows of the issue, which is that the file that becomes /usr/share/man/man5/fonts-conf.5.gz is not the same between the i386 build and the x86_64 build ... and they have this (private) bugzilla concerning that same problem with s390 and s390x:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97079
Whatever they did do, they did not build their RPMS for i386 and x86_64 from the published SRPM.
As I said, hopefully we will have a patch that works later today for this issue.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes