Re: --fileconflicts as default

["Marcus Habermehl (BMH1980)" <bmh1980de yahoo de>]

Jeff Johnson schrieb:
> On Mar 29, 2007, at 8:14 PM, Marcus Habermehl (BMH1980) wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > Is there any way, to enable the --fileconflicts option on installing 
> > and updating as default?
>
> Hmmm, what version of rpm? My version of rpm has file conflicts 
> disabled, RH's is enabled.
>
> > Maybe a special macro, a configure option or a patch or anything else.
> >
> > I've tried it with /etc/popt. It was working. But -qi / --info wasn't 
> > working after my changes in /etc/popt. Because of this I must remove 
> > the popt alias.
>
> No popt is the way to add and explivit --fileconflicts when
>
> Try this (untested, but simple enough that I have a prayer of typing 
> correctly)
>
>    rpm alias -U --upgrade --fileconflicts
>
> Hmmm, perhaps your alias for -i is what broke --info. rpm has 3 different
> meanings for -i that are contextually dependent for hysterical reasons.
>
> FWIW, -U is same as -i if package is not installed, so always use -U. 
So there is no other way to activate --fileconflicts per default?

I think it isn't a good idea to disable fileconflicts per default. 
That's the reason for me to activate it.

Best regards
Marcus