FC3 rpm behavior change

"Nils O. Selåsdal" NOS at Utel.no
Sat Oct 30 06:51:10 UTC 2004


Dax Kelson wrote:

>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?
>
>Dax
>
>  
>
Then my hunch about this were right. I was yelling a bit about that on 
IRC, but most people claimed
RPM does NOT work like that. Apparantly it does on my system. Rather bad 
imho, it allows for easily
screw up.




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