How to fix circular package conflict on Mageia involving zlib

Hi,

On my Mageia build target I get this error involving zlib:


unresolvable: conflict for provider of zlib
      (provider zlib is obsoleted by installed lib64zlib1)
      conflict for provider of zlib = 1.2.11-1.1 needed by zlib-devel
      (provider zlib is obsoleted by installed lib64zlib1)

this is despite having this in my project config:


Prefer: zlib
Prefer: zlib-devel

I have tried changing zlib in my project config to lib64zlib1 (for the 64-bit build) and libzlib1 (for the 32-bit build), but still I get this error. Any ideas of how to resolve this error?

Thanks for your time,
Brenton