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

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Sat Feb 27 04:47:30 UTC 2010


Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> said:
> The script I am using needs a lot of
> tweaking still things like ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick both provide
> vicar.so but not in conflicting ways.

Well, if something requires vicar.so those two package conflict in that
you may pull in the wrong (or at least unexpected) one.  That gets back
to a flaw in the way requires and depends are auto-determined; private
.so files get "promoted" to public for RPM dependencies.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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