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odd mariadb-connector-c error on update

Server version: 10.5.5-MariaDB MariaDB Server

hello - after installing 10.5 i get the following error:

# dnf  -y  update ;
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Error:
 Problem: package mariadb-connector-c-devel-3.0.7-1.el8.x86_64 requires mariadb-connector-c = 3.0.7-1.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package MariaDB-shared-10.5.5-1.el8.x86_64 obsoletes mariadb-connector-c provided by mariadb-connector-c-3.0.7-1.el8.x86_64
  - package MariaDB-shared-10.5.5-1.el8.x86_64 obsoletes mariadb-connector-c provided by mariadb-connector-c-3.0.7-1.el8.i686
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package mariadb-connector-c-devel-3.0.7-1.el8.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package mariadb-connector-c-3.0.7-1.el8.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

suggestions?

Answer Answered by Geoff Montee in this comment.

Hi,

I've reported a bug for you here:

https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-23506

In the mean time, I would suggest trying to work around this problem by doing something like this:

sudo yum remove mariadb-connector-c-devel
sudo yum install MariaDB-devel
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