File conflicts, how do they work at that point?

Olivier Galibert galibert at pobox.com
Tue Nov 20 16:54:13 UTC 2007


On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 05:37:16PM +0100, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> On 11/20/2007 05:28 PM, 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.
> 
> The content of the file is a shell script which has a reference to 
> /usr/lib64 on my 64bit box, so yes they are different and would conflict 
> if both installed.
>
> Were you installing something which is bringing down the 32 bit version 
> for you?

Yes, '*', from a repository which contents are 99% from the dvd image,
only up to date, and with things like "tcsh" added.

  OG.




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