Bug 2071836

Summary:	error installing libxml2-2.9.13-1.fc35.i686.rpm due to conflict with x86_64 files
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Martin Sebor <msebor>
Component:	libxml2	Assignee:	Igor Raits <igor.raits>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	35	CC:	amigadave, code, michel, thomas.moschny, veillard
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Description Martin Sebor 2022-04-04 23:04:43 UTC

Installing libxml2 for i686 fails on x865_64 Fedora 35 with the error below.  Is there a solution or workaround?

$ sudo dnf -y install libxml2.i686
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Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package          Architecture  Version                  Repository        Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 libxml2          i686          2.9.13-1.fc35            updates          785 k
Installing dependencies:
 xz-libs          i686          5.2.5-7.fc35             fedora           100 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  2 Packages

Total download size: 885 k
Installed size: 2.1 M
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): xz-libs-5.2.5-7.fc35.i686.rpm            247 kB/s | 100 kB     00:00    
(2/2): libxml2-2.9.13-1.fc35.i686.rpm           840 kB/s | 785 kB     00:00    
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Total                                           510 kB/s | 885 kB     00:01     
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful transaction.
You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'.
Error: Transaction test error:
  file /usr/share/doc/libxml2/NEWS from install of libxml2-2.9.13-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libxml2-2.9.12-6.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/doc/libxml2/TODO from install of libxml2-2.9.13-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libxml2-2.9.12-6.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man1/xmlcatalog.1.gz from install of libxml2-2.9.13-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libxml2-2.9.12-6.fc35.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man1/xmllint.1.gz from install of libxml2-2.9.13-1.fc35.i686 conflicts with file from package libxml2-2.9.12-6.fc35.x86_64

Comment 1 Martin Sebor 2022-04-05 00:47:00 UTC

Running dnf update libxml2 got me past the errors in the original report but it doesn't seem to have installed the top-level symlink to /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.  (I got the same problem with i686 /usr/lib/libz.so -- no symlink).  So something's still not quite right with the i686 packages.

Comment 2 Thomas Moschny 2022-04-06 00:05:35 UTC

Wrong component - reassigning.

Comment 3 Ben Beasley 2022-08-26 12:36:12 UTC

While the error was a bit cryptic, it makes sense that you would not be able to install the x86_64 and i686 multilib packages with different version numbers. The documentation files conflict because their contents are different in different versions but their paths are not architecture-dependent.

Regarding the symlinks, this looks OK to me:

$ mock -r fedora-35-x86_64 --dnf-cmd -- repoquery -l libxml2.i686
[…]
/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.9.12
[…]
$ mock -r fedora-35-x86_64 --dnf-cmd -- repoquery -l libxml2-devel.i686
[…]
/usr/lib/libxml2.so
[…]
$ mock -r fedora-35-x86_64 -i libxml2-devel.i686
[…]
$ mock -r fedora-35-x86_64 --chroot 'ls -l /usr/lib/libxml*'
[…]
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      17 May  3 03:11 /usr/lib/libxml2.so -> libxml2.so.2.9.14
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      17 May  3 03:11 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 -> libxml2.so.2.9.14
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1729908 May  3 03:11 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.9.14
[…]

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