HyperVM and yum update Transaction Check Errors

If you’re having file conflict problems when running “yum update” on servers with the lxlabsupdate repository for HyperVM (or Kloxo) installed then there’s a simple resolution:

cd /var/cache/yum/lxlabsupdate/packages/
rpm -Uvh *.rpm –replacefiles –replacepkgs

This should fix errors such as:

file /usr/share/man/man1/pcregrep.1.gz from install of pcre-8.02-1.el5_5.1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7.i386
file /usr/share/man/man1/pcretest.1.gz from install of pcre-8.02-1.el5_5.1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7.i386