Re: ks] deploying and maintaining linux networks howto

[R P Herrold <herrold owlriver com>]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Martinez, Carlos R wrote:

> So I have a custom RPM or two that I normally need to "--force" to
> install/update due to it is overwriting a file that is owned by another RPM.
> Basically I have custom NIC drivers that I've created RPM packages for and
> they need to override the drivers that are installed by default by the
> kernel RPM packages.
> 
> Any suggestions??

Broadcom drivers, I'll wager ... patch the kernel source RPM, 
since you are not running a pristine vendor kernel set anyway 
and correct the conflict in a rebuild from sources.

-- Russ Herrold