On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:13:21 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:08:35AM -0400, Tim Evans wrote:
> > Since yesterday, F20 yum update reports:
> > 
> > Transaction check error:
> >   file /usr/include/ImageMagick-6/magick/magick-baseconfig.h
> > conflicts between attempted installs of
> > ImageMagick-devel-6.8.6.3-4.fc20.i686 and
> > ImageMagick-devel-6.8.6.3-4.fc20.x86_64
> > 
> > --skip-broken will not ignore this.
> > 
> > I see a lot of "conflicts between attempted installs of..." reports
> > in bugzilla, but not this specific one.
> 
> Note the architecture difference. I'd suggest just removing
> ImageMagick-devel-6.8.6.3-4.fc20.i686. This may be a packaging bug, but
> generally you don't want i686 devel packages installed anyway.

It's a multilib conflict in the -devel packages (i.e. the headers are
likely arch-specific). We try to avoid such conflicts for several years,
but not with a special policy [1] anywhere (which is one reason why some
packagers don't patch the -devel package contents to solve such conflicts).

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Conflicts
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