qemu-img in EPEL overrides kvm-qemu-img in RHEL

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:20 AM, David Juran <djuran at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Back again to the discussion about EPEL packages that override their
> RHEL counterparts...

Thanks for reminding this. Oi this is going to cause some pain. I have
been doing just source name conflicts/overrides and not provide
overrides. Am hoping to get something together this wekend to catch
these.


> RHEL5 contains kvm-qemu-img-83-105.el5_4.22 that provides
> qemu-img = 0.9.1.kvm.83
>
> EPEL however provides qemu-img-0.10.5-1.el5.2 so after installing e.g.
> python-virtinst from RHEL which requires qemu-img, the user will end up
> with qemu-img from EPEL and not kvm-qemu-img.
>
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> David Juran
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