Re: Script to detect conflicting files in PATH within a yum repo (was Re: conflict between libotf and openmpi)

[Bruno Wolff III <bruno wolff to>]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 21:10:16 -0400,
  Neal Becker <ndbecker2 gmail com> wrote:
> 
> But the original problem was a file level conflict.  Is it ever valid for 2 
> packages to own the same file?

Yes. At a minimum the file's contents has to be identical in the two packages.