[packman] Suddenly getting errors regarding i586 packages

[Richard Gladman]

It looks like there's a problem with the libavcodec56 package.

[richard at andromeda-ascendant ~]$ sudo zypper in vlc-codecs-2.2.4-13.1
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

Problem: nothing provides libavcodec56(unrestricted) needed by 
vlc-codecs-2.2.4-13.1.x86_64
  Solution 1: do not install vlc-codecs-2.2.4-13.1.x86_64
  Solution 2: break vlc-codecs-2.2.4-13.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its 
dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/c] (c): c
[richard at andromeda-ascendant ~]$ zypper se --details libavcodec56
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name                         | Type    | Version   | Arch   | Repository
--+------------------------------+---------+-----------+--------+-----------
i | libavcodec56                 | package | 2.8.8-3.1 | x86_64 | packman
v | libavcodec56                 | package | 2.8.8-3.1 | i586   | packman
v | libavcodec56                 | package | 2.8.8-1.1 | x86_64 | repo-oss
v | libavcodec56                 | package | 2.8.8-1.1 | i586   | repo-oss
   | libavcodec56-32bit           | package | 2.8.8-3.1 | x86_64 | packman
   | libavcodec56-32bit           | package | 2.8.8-1.1 | x86_64 | repo-oss
   | libavcodec56-debuginfo       | package | 2.8.8-3.1 | x86_64 | packman
   | libavcodec56-debuginfo       | package | 2.8.8-3.1 | i586   | packman
   | libavcodec56-debuginfo       | package | 2.8.8-1.1 | x86_64 | 
repo-debug
   | libavcodec56-debuginfo       | package | 2.8.8-1.1 | i586   | 
repo-debug
   | libavcodec56-debuginfo-32bit | package | 2.8.8-3.1 | x86_64 | packman
   | libavcodec56-debuginfo-32bit | package | 2.8.8-1.1 | x86_64 | 
repo-debug

It's explained much better on the openSUSE forums so rather than 
stealing credit, here's the link: 
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/520403-Where-are-these-i586-packages-coming-from?p=2795692#post2795692