[Libguestfs] install error from epel ?

Richard W.M. Jones
Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:01:56 -0000

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:45:14PM -0400, Jeremy Eder
wrote:
> has anyone seen this on a 64bit rhel box:
>
>
>
> root at lab: ~ # yum --enablerepo=epel-testing install guestfish
'*guestfs*'
>
> Transaction Check Error:
>   file /usr/bin/libguestfs-supermin-helper from install of
libguestfs-1.0.67-1.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package
libguestfs-1.0.67-1.el5.x86_64
>
>
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> Linux lab.lab 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Aug 19 04:00:49 EDT 2009 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)
>
> epel-release-5-3

Good old multilib ...

In this case it does look like a genuine problem.  libguestfs-
supermin-helper is really a libexec type of file.  However it has to
exist on $PATH so that libguestfs can be run without being installed.
Unfortunately the file contains @host_cpu@ so it's not identical on
both architectures, which breaks multilib.

Please open a bug.

Rich.

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