Re: files getting overwritten

[Zac Elston <Zac Elston metavante com>]

On May 8, 2008, at 1:19 AM, rpm-list-request redhat com wrote:

Subject: files getting overwritten

Greetings.

I'm attempting to demonstrate how RPMs will save the developer's butt by not allowing a file to be overwritten and during my demo, PackageB overwrites PackageA's file

[root webd-m01 ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/local/testfile

psi-test-1-dev

psi-retest-2-dev

what did I do wrong?

I discovered it must be a function of RHEL's up2date.  rpm works as expected while up2date allows the overwrite

[root webd-m01 etc]#  rpm -ivh http://kickstart/packages/dev/psi-test-1.1-dev.i386.rpm

Retrieving http://kickstart/packages/dev/psi-test-1.1-dev.i386.rpm

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]

   1:psi-test               ########################################### [100%]

[root webd-m01 etc]#  rpm -ivh http://kickstart/packages/dev/psi-retest-2.2-dev.i386.rpm

Retrieving http://kickstart/packages/dev/psi-retest-2.2-dev.i386.rpm

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]

        file /usr/local/psi/testfile from install of psi-retest-2.2-dev conflicts with file from package psi-test-1.1-dev

-zaq