[Bug 453851] Review Request: globus-common - Globus Toolkit - Common Library

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--- Comment #22 from Mattias Ellert <mattias.ellert at fysast.uu.se>  2009-04-20 00:15:48 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #21)
> When two packages contain the same file in the same path, there is always a
> problem, even if they are identical. The packages will not install because rpm
> will say that they conflict.
> 
> Am I missing something?  

The packages will only conflict if the files are different. If they are the
same there is no problem installing both packages (like on F-9 and F-10 in this
case):

[ellert at ellert ~]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/share/globus/config.guess 
globus-common-progs-10.2-1.fc9.i386
grid-packaging-tools-3.2-17.fc9.noarch

That it is possible does of course not mean this is a good thing to do in this
case.

This feature is regularly used to allow multi-arch installations where e.g.
header files are the same in the -devel package for i386 an x86_64, but can be
installed simultaneously. But this is as far as I see the only really valid
usecase for it.

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