File conflicts, how do they work at that point?
Hans de Goede
j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Tue Nov 20 16:33:49 UTC 2007
Olivier Galibert wrote:
> Transaction Check Error:
> file /usr/bin/smcs from install of mono-core-1.2.5.1-3.fc8 conflicts with file from package mono-core-1.2.5.1-3.fc8
>
> Now that's a beautiful error message :-) Probably one is x86_64 and
> the other i386.
>
> What are the rules for file conflicts now? I thought they didn't
> exist anymore since multilib makes them more than annoying, and you
> couldn't even install both glibcs, but it looks like they can still
> appear somehow...
>
They do not exist for elf binaries, for other files, the files must be
identical for both x86_64 and i386, my guess: smcs is a shell script?
Regards,
Hans
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