conflicting i86 and x86_64 in repo?

[Rahul]

tomhorsley at adelphia.net wrote:
> Last night I was updating my FC6t1 system that is an x86_64 box. I installed this
> from the DVD iso and have always gotten updates since then by running pup.
> 
> I got conflicts last night that were complaining about some library being
> needed by gnopernicus, so I did an rpm -q gnopernicus and found I had
> two gnopernicus rpms installed, 

Can you post the exact error?

both the same version, one i386 and one
> x86_64. Usiing the --list option, I found both of them install many files
> with the exact same name (no /lib versus /lib64), so it is hard to see how
> both rpms could actually be correctly installed simultaneously.
> 
> Has pup screwed up at some point and installed i386 rpms when it should
> have picked x86_64 ones? Have the repos gotten corrupted at some point?
> Or is it really legitimate to have two conflicting rpms like this?
> 

Yes. RPM multi arch support works that way.

Rahul