yum install subversion fails with “package is already installed”

I have a new CentOS installation in place using utterramblings.repo and got this mesage when doing a “yum install subversion”:

Transaction Check Error:

package apr-1.4.5-1.jason.1.x86_64 (which is newer than apr-1.2.7-11.el5_6.5.i386) is already installed

package apr-util-1.3.12-1.jason.1.x86_64 (which is newer than apr-util-1.2.7-11.el5_5.2.i386) is already installed

Now some posts on the ‘net say to do a “yum downgrade” but that seems just unreasonable! Instead, the solution was to only install the X86_64 version! So the following worked:

yum install subversion.x86_64