[Fedora-packaging] Re: rpm -i, "missing" file conflicts and brokenness with kmods

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:00:34PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Axel Thimm (Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net) said: 
> > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 08:24:25PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 02:19 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > > o rpm -i behaves properly with file conflicts
> > > > o yum may for some reason turn of file conflict checking
> > > 
> > > There is no code in yum that disables file conflict checking.
> > 
> > I wouldn't think so myself, but Thorsten's report seems to indicate
> > this.
> > 
> > Is there some other explanation why people don't see file conflicts
> > under yum?
> 
> rpm does not properly detect multilib conflicts when packages are
> installed in the same transaction. This is a RPM bug, and has
> nothing to do with yum.
> 
> Bug 190209, if you're curious.

But the report by Thorsten did not involve any multilib situation. In
fact it looked like he used FC5/i386 to test it, check

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2006-August/msg00250.html

He includes a repeatable setup where yum installs an i686 package
overwriting another i686 package. I didn't verify the yum setup (but I
trust Thorsten to have done the right thing), I just checked with rpm
-i alone and that worked as expected, e.g. file conflicts were
detected and the install aborted.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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