On 01/13/2012 08:16 AM, Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote:
> I am getting the following error when yum tries to do
> the nightly update on an SL6 system:
>
> Transaction Check Error:
> file /usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/cracklib.mo conflicts between
> attempted installs of cracklib-2.8.16-2.el6.i686 and
> cracklib-2.8.16-4.el6.x86_64
> file /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/cracklib.mo conflicts between
> attempted installs of cracklib-2.8.16-2.el6.i686 and
> cracklib-2.8.16-4.el6.x86_64
>
> The dependencies are messed up.
> Does anyone know how to resolve this?

Have you tried rebuilding your rpm database (rpm --rebuilddb)? Usually I 
get pretty good luck with trying that before anything else.

The second place to look would be to see if you really need both i686 
and x86_64. If you don't have anything that depends on i686 you could 
safely remove it (this is likely, but check before you do anything).

And... beyond that the cracklib package specs would need to be checked 
to see why these two versions of the same package are trying to override 
each other like that. These are only language translation files -- so 
its really not a big deal if you let one squish the other (it is 
extremely likely they are identical), but the spec should already be 
written that way to begin with. Specifically, if they really are 
different they should be installed to different locations, and if they 
are idential then they should be in a separate common-dependency noarch 
package or take another route to avoid a conflict. If this paragraph 
just confuses you then don't bother with specs unless you have some time 
on your hands, though.

Hope this helped more than confused.