Yum update error

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:57:45 +1100, David Timms wrote:

> Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > Successfully installed Fedora 8 (test 3 it was) from the x86_64 live cd
> > but after a few days of use I'm having a problem updating the system
> > with yum:
> > 
> > Transaction Check Error:
> >   file /etc/pulse/daemon.conf from install of
> > pulseaudio-0.9.7-0.17.svn20071017.fc8 conflicts with file from package
> > pulseaudio-0.9.7-0.14.svn20070929.fc8
> >   file /etc/pulse/default.pa from install of
> > pulseaudio-0.9.7-0.17.svn20071017.fc8 conflicts with file from package
> > pulseaudio-0.9.7-0.14.svn20070929.fc8
> 
> It could be:
> 1. another package required a particular version of PA, and hence the 
> new one can't live with the old one ?
> yum -d 10 update might give the info needed.

The newer pulseaudio pkg would be seen as an _update_ and would never
cause a conflict like quoted above. It looks like multilib breakage
between x86_64 and i386 pkgs.
 
> 2. what archetectures are the PA package for:
> rpm -q --qf="%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n" pulseaudio|sort
> 
> DaveT.
>