Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 449831
ile /usr/share/man/man5/png.5.gz from install of libpng-1.2.29-1.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from package libpng-1.2.24-1.fc9.x86_64
Last modified: 2013-07-02 23:18:17 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.20 Description of problem: Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Updating: libpng i386 2:1.2.29-1.fc9 updates 251 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 0 Package(s) Update 1 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total size: 251 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man5/png.5.gz from install of libpng-1.2.29-1.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from package libpng-1.2.24-1.fc9.x86_64 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libpng-1.2.24-1.fc9.x86_66 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Install i386 and x86_64 versions Actual Results: Multiarch conflict on man page Expected Results: Both should install Additional info:
This may be as simple as the x86_64 rpm not propagating to the mirrors at the same time.
I just checked a nearby mirror and found 1.2.29 versions for both arches, with identical png.5.gz files; so I think you did indeed see some transient intermediate state. I'm not sure whether the Fedora distribution infrastructure has any expectation of being able to prevent such problems. If it claims to do so, then you need to be reporting the issue somewhere else ...