FC3 rpm behavior change
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Sat Oct 30 16:42:40 UTC 2004
Stuart Jansen wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 11:40 +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 10:27 +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 01:20:58AM -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
>>>
>>>> In Fedora Core 3, RPM will ignore such conflicts, and the package
>>>> installation will proceed, overwriting any conflicting files from
>>>> previously-installed packages.
>>>
>>>Is there any way to revert to the previous behaviour ?
>>
>>rpm --fileconflicts
>
>
> So we've got a reply from an @redhat.com that says how to avoid the
> behavior.
I have to agree with the consensus shown here that this change in
default behavior is, to put in mildly, *just plain stupid*. Please,
please revert to previous, proper behavior, and force folks who insist
on this broken behavior to use
rpm --replacefiles
Has anyone bothered to submit anything to bugzilla yet? (If not, I'd be
happy to).
-- Rex
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