FC3 rpm behavior change

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Sat Oct 30 10:49:10 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 12:45 +0200, Matias Féliciano wrote:
> Le samedi 30 octobre 2004 à 11:40 +0100, Paul Nasrat a écrit :
> > On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 10:27 +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 01:20:58AM -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > > >
> > > >    In Fedora Core 3, RPM will ignore such conflicts, and the package
> > > >    installation will proceed, overwriting any conflicting files from
> > > >    previously-installed packages.
> > > 
> > > Is there any way to revert to the previous behaviour ?
> > 
> > rpm --fileconflicts
> > 
> 
> Any advice for yum, apt, up2date ?

All doable via the api by setting prob filter flags, this may only
affect rpm CLI -  so they may not be changed depending on if the reset
all the flags and just set them for the transaction. 

I'll create a simple testcase and confirm against the apps next week.

Paul




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