I was doing a regular dnf -y update on a F26 and I got this file conflict:
Error: Transaction check error: file /usr/share/doc/libgcrypt/AUTHORS from install of libgcrypt-1.7.9-1.fc26.i686 conflicts with file from package libgcrypt-1.7.8-1.fc26.x86_64 file /usr/share/doc/libgcrypt/NEWS from install of libgcrypt-1.7.9-1.fc26.i686 conflicts with file from package libgcrypt-1.7.8-1.fc26.x86_64
Error Summary -------------
It's a 64 bit machine and I don't even know why I have libgcrypt - i686, but trying to remove that triggers a bunch of other i686 packages to be removed and the mess is spreading.
How do I force overwriting the AUTHORS and NEWS files? I tried --allowerasing but I got the same error.
Thanks!
On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 18:02:03 +0000 (UTC), Amadeus W.M. wrote:
I was doing a regular dnf -y update on a F26 and I got this file conflict:
Error: Transaction check error: file /usr/share/doc/libgcrypt/AUTHORS from install of libgcrypt-1.7.9-1.fc26.i686 conflicts with file from package libgcrypt-1.7.8-1.fc26.x86_64 file /usr/share/doc/libgcrypt/NEWS from install of libgcrypt-1.7.9-1.fc26.i686 conflicts with file from package libgcrypt-1.7.8-1.fc26.x86_64
Error Summary
It's a 64 bit machine and I don't even know why I have libgcrypt - i686, but trying to remove that triggers a bunch of other i686 packages to be removed and the mess is spreading.
How do I force overwriting the AUTHORS and NEWS files? I tried --allowerasing but I got the same error.
Don't. It should just work. The version of both the x86_64 and i686 packages is the same, _normally_, because both builds of the package are put into the repository at the same time.
What do you get for
dnf list libgcrypt rpm -qa libgcrypt*
?
The 1.7.9-1.fc26 release is available in updates for two weeks or so.
Unfortunately, you've truncated the dnf output, so not much is known. It's also interesting that dnf doesn't protect against multilib breakage.
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