conflicts when file changed from 32bit to 64bit

[Florian Festi]

On 03/15/2016 06:05 PM, Paul Becker wrote:
> I changed one binary file in the RPM from 32bit to 64 bit and now RPM
> seems to think it is an all new RPM
> 
> and will not update the previous RPM version. RPM complains about file
> conflicts and if I force
> 
> the install, it keeps the previous RPM installed and I have to remove it
> manually.
> 
>  
> 
> Is there a way I can make this RPM with a new 64 bit binary properly
> update the previous RPM installed
> 
> that had a 32bit binary in it?
> 
>  
> 
> yum info still says 32 bit on both the new RPM and the previous RPM.
> 
>  
> 
>   Arch        : i386
> 
>  
> 
> The only change between the latest RPM and the previous RPM is the
> binary file and release version string that was
> 
> incremented by one.

That's pretty weird as there should not be a conflict between a package
and its update at all as they are not installed at the same time. Can
you post the error message, please?

I wonder if this is a multilib situation where you have both a i386 and
an x86_64 package installed and are updating only the i386 package.

Florian

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