On Aug 5, 2013, at 12:45 PM, 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Spacewalk 1.9; getting file conflicts in package (openssl) when applying 
> security errata:
>  
>  
> Client execution returned "Error while executing packages action: Transaction 
> Check Error: file /etc/pki/tls/certs/Makefile from install of 
> openssl-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package 
> openssl-0.9.8e-12.el5_5.7.i686 file /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt from 
> install of openssl-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package 
> openssl-0.9.8e-12.el5_5.7.i686 file /usr/share/man/man1/ca.1ssl.gz from 
> install of openssl-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package 
> openssl-0.9.8e-12.el5_5.7.i686 file /usr/share/man/man1/req.1ssl.gz from 
> install of openssl-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package 
> openssl-0.9.8e-12.el5_5.7.i686 file /usr/share/man/man1/x509.1ssl.gz from 
> install of openssl-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package 
> openssl-0.9.8e-12.el5_5.7.i686 [[6]]" (code -1)
> Errata Affected:
> CL-SA-2013:0587 (Moderate: openssl security update)
> Curiously, I can install at the client using “yum upgrade openssl”.
> The packages are present in the repository:
> openssl    i686      0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1
> openssl    x86_64    0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1
> I tried pulling the individual rpms to /tmp on the client, and running rpm 
> –Uvh /tmp/tcl*.rpm and it returned the same conflicts as Spacewalk and 
> rhn_check did on the client. If I run rpm with the “—replacefiles” option, it 
> installs fine.
> The repos are hosted internally; repo-sync run nightly to sync to the 
> Spacewalk server channels.
>  
> How can I resolve this? A search reveals similar events reported from time to 
> time, but no clear resolution. Is it possible to enable  –replacefiles to 
> automatically replace those files rather than fail the upgrade? Where can I 
> look for additional details and debugging?  
>  
>  
> Thanks for your attention to this; any help and tips or suggestions greatly 
> appreciated. 
>  
>  
> Best Regards,
>  
> Whit
>  
> --
> Whitney “Whit” Latta
> Sr. Systems Engineer
> Linux - Open Systems Engineering
> [email protected]
>  
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It appears that you have subscribed this system to the wrong software channel 
that is a 64bit machine try to upgrade it with 32bit package or vice versa.
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