Fedora (Linux) is Destroying it self

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue May 12 14:34:04 UTC 2009


Seth Vidal wrote:
>
> a file conflict is two pkgs owning the same file where the file is not:
>  1. identical between the two pkgs
>  2. not a 64bit or 32bit binary when the other file is the matching 
> 64bit or 32bit binary.

+ when its check sum matches.

This has nasty effects with F11, because it has switched from md5 to sha256.

This kills packages which share files, but have been built on different 
versions of Fedora or CentOS.

One real world example, I encountered this issue with: the rpm-gpgkey 
package of a 3rd party repo.

Ralf




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