[SOLVED] yum update reports many conflicts after upgrading Fedora16 to 17 (x86_64)

Doug Hutcheson · #1 28th June 2012, 06:09 AM

I have just upgraded my Fedora 16 to 17 (x86_64). When I run yum update, it reports"Found 193 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s)" (see attached file for details) and doesn't complete. It appears to be raising conflicts on packages that should not conflict, because they are at different releases and may be different architectures, as far as I can tell. For example:

Code:

alsa-lib-1.0.25-3.fc17.x86_64 is a duplicate with alsa-lib-1.0.25-1.fc16.i686

How can yum come to the conclusion that fc17.x86_64 conflicts with fc16.i686?

I am baffled. Any ideas out there?

george_toolan · #2 28th June 2012, 08:59 AM

You upgraded from a 32 bit version of Fedora 16 to a 64 bit version of Fedora 17?

Doug Hutcheson · #3 28th June 2012, 11:06 AM

Nope! But I did have some 32-bit libraries etc. installed, for apps that don't speak x86_64.

In the end, I went through each of the 193 conflicts, installing or updating specific versions. That took all afternoon, but the following 'yum update' I performed successfully ploughed through about 1280 updates without a hitch.

I think the problem lies in the way yum recognised packages from earlier versions of Fedora and also confused x86_64 and i686 instances. I don't know enough about the way yum operates to speak with any authority, but hand-patching the 193 conflicts seems to have worked.