FC3 rpm behavior change

Matias Féliciano feliciano.matias at free.fr
Sun Oct 31 10:35:40 UTC 2004


Le samedi 30 octobre 2004 à 01:20 -0600, Dax Kelson a écrit :
> The FC3 Release Notes say:
> 
> =============
>    RPM's default behavior regarding file conflicts in Fedora Core 3 has
>    changed. In the past, file conflicts (where a file from one
>    already-installed package also appears in a package that is to be
>    installed) caused the installation of the package containing the
>    conflicting file to abort.
>                                                                                                                                                                    
>    In Fedora Core 3, RPM will ignore such conflicts, and the package
>    installation will proceed, overwriting any conflicting files from
>    previously-installed packages.
> ============
> 
> What's the rationale for this?
> 

From rom : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=137690

        Additional Comment #2 From Jeff Johnson (jbj at redhat.com)  on 2004-10-31 03:29 ------- 
        File conflicts reenabled by default in rpm-4.3.2-18.
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