Description of problem: I have just tried to install the x86_64 version of the hal-devel package, but it failed at the transaction test stage because of a file conflict between the i386 and x86_64 versions: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/hal/ch01.html from install of hal-devel-0.5.8.1-5.fc6 conflicts with file from package hal-devel-0.5.8.1-5.fc6 file /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/hal/ch02.html from install of hal-devel-0.5.8.1-5.fc6 conflicts with file from package hal-devel-0.5.8.1-5.fc6 file /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/hal/hal-libhal-storage.html from install of hal-devel-0.5.8.1-5.fc6 conflicts with file from package hal-devel-0.5.8.1-5.fc6 file /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/hal/hal-libhal.html from install of hal-devel-0.5.8.1-5.fc6 conflicts with file from package hal-devel-0.5.8.1-5.fc6 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I'm seeing a similar problem on my x86_64 FC7 Test 3 box. rpm -q --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n" hal returns hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7.i386 hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7.x86_64 yum update tries to update the x86_64 version alone to 0.5.9-1.fc7 and the update fails with: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man1/hal-disable-polling.1.gz from install of hal-0.5.9-1.fc7 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7 file /usr/share/man/man1/hal-find-by-capability.1.gz from install of hal-0.5.9-1.fc7 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7 file /usr/share/man/man1/hal-find-by-property.1.gz from install of hal-0.5.9-1.fc7 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7 file /usr/share/man/man1/hal-get-property.1.gz from install of hal-0.5.9-1.fc7 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7 file /usr/share/man/man1/hal-is-caller-locked-out.1.gz from install of hal-0.5.9-1.fc7 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7 file /usr/share/man/man1/hal-lock.1.gz from install of hal-0.5.9-1.fc7 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7 file /usr/share/man/man1/hal-set-property.1.gz from install of hal-0.5.9-1.fc7 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7 file /usr/share/man/man1/lshal.1.gz from install of hal-0.5.9-1.fc7 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7
The dependency problem I mentioned is also covered in bugs 235128 and 235152.
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I can't reproduce this anymore.
Thank you for the bug report. Closing bug as per comment #4.