yum/dnf fails to apply security updates, reporting conflicts "cannot install both packageA_relX.i686 and packageA_relY.x86_64" and the like
Issue
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Trying to apply security updates on the system, errors are returned, as shown in the example below:
# yum update --security [...] Error: Problem 1: glibc-gconv-extra-2.28-225.el8_8.6.i686 from @System does not belong to a distupgrade repository - cannot install both glibc-gconv-extra-2.28-236.el8.7.x86_64 from os and glibc-gconv-extra-2.28-225.el8_8.6.x86_64 from @System - cannot install both glibc-gconv-extra-2.28-236.el8.7.x86_64 from os and glibc-gconv-extra-2.28-225.el8_8.6.x86_64 from os - cannot install both glibc-gconv-extra-2.28-225.el8_8.6.x86_64 from os8eus and glibc-gconv-extra-2.28-236.el8.7.x86_64 from os - cannot install the best update candidate for package glibc-gconv-extra-2.28-225.el8_8.6.i686 - cannot install the best update candidate for package glibc-gconv-extra-2.28-225.el8_8.6.x86_64 Problem 2: nss_db-2.28-225.el8_8.6.i686 from @System does not belong to a distupgrade repository - cannot install both nss_db-2.28-236.el8.7.x86_64 from os and nss_db-2.28-225.el8_8.6.x86_64 from @System - cannot install both nss_db-2.28-236.el8.7.x86_64 from os and nss_db-2.28-225.el8_8.6.x86_64 from os - cannot install both nss_db-2.28-225.el8_8.6.x86_64 from os8eus and nss_db-2.28-236.el8.7.x86_64 from os - cannot install the best update candidate for package nss_db-2.28-225.el8_8.6.x86_64 - cannot install the best update candidate for package nss_db-2.28-225.el8_8.6.i686
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- yum/dnf
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