file conflicts with previous version

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 19 May 2009, James M. Leddy wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, 19 May 2009, James M. Leddy wrote:
>> 
>>> Seth Vidal wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, 19 May 2009, James M. Leddy wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I know that upgrading via yum is unsupported an not to ever do it and to 
>>>>> use preupgrade, but I'm still curious as to why I get messages like 
>>>>> this:
>>>>>
>>>>>  file /etc/gpm-twiddler.conf from install of gpm-1.20.6-3.fc11.x86_64 
>>>>> conflicts with file from package gpm-1.20.5-2.fc10.i386
>>>>> 
>>>>> Shouldn't it be obvious that you're going to replace files when 
>>>>> upgrading a package?
>>>> 
>>>> Those are different archs.
>>>> 
>>>> -sv
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Good point.  Shortly after posting I realized I upgraded all of these 
>>> packages before using yum, but only the x86_64 versions.  Looks like I'm 
>>> going to have to do a few more manual installs.
>> 
>> Any reason you did others manually? Handling them in yum means the multilib 
>> trickery will be handled.
>> 
>> I know yum is not officially supported for upgrading from release to 
>> release but depending on the system it works on a largish number of cases.
>> 
>> -sv
>
> I wanted to make sure that my system survived the python-2.5 -> 2.6
> switch, so I updated rpm, python, yum and a lot of deps manually.
> I'll keep that info in mind in the future though.

Once yum is in memory the version of python doesn't matter.

When in doubt do:

yum update yum\* rpm\*

to the next version and that'll put you in a reasonable place.

-sv