problem with "yum install libXmu.so.6"

[mailing-lists at hughesjr.com (Johnny Hughes)]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 13:49 -0400, Nat Gross wrote:
> On 4/26/06, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Les Mikesell wrote:
> > >
> > > If it does want the 32-bit version it shouldn't hurt anything
> > > to install it with:
> > > yum  install xorg-x11-libs.i386
> > > I needed that for VMware server recently and posted here about
> > > a conflict with fontconfig from the 64-bit version.  I think
> > > that's a bug but someone responded with a workaround:
> >
> >
> > > rpm -e --justdb --nodeps fontconfig
> >
> > which is very very wrong, and if you really care about this, dont do it.
> >  find the solution to the problem, rather than just using a hammer to
> > break your system even more.
> Now, that I did do that, how do I reverse it?

Karanbir and I are solving this issue right now ... we should have a fix
later that will work for CentOS users (I hope).

Just for the record, the upstream provider knows of the issue, which is
that the file that becomes /usr/share/man/man5/fonts-conf.5.gz is not
the same between the i386 build and the x86_64 build ... and they have
this (private) bugzilla concerning that same problem with s390 and
s390x:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97079

Whatever they did do, they did not build their RPMS for i386 and x86_64
from the published SRPM.

As I said, hopefully we will have a patch that works later today for
this issue.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
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