File conflicts, how do they work at that point?

[Olivier Galibert]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 10:57:32AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
> >Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>Yes it's confusing and inconsistent behavior which I *really* want to get 
> >>rid of. It's just that this is not a simple matter of "fixing rpm" - our 
> >>package set is full of conflicting files. The package set needs fixing, 
> >>otherwise you'll have a very much uninstallable x86_64 (and to slightly 
> >>lesser effect ppc) tree.
> >
> >Wouldn't fixing rpm early in the development cycle encourage more packages 
> >to get fixed faster?
> 
> That's the very reason bug #190209 is being dusted off at the moment :)

What are the rules you want to have?
1- always conflict
2- conflict if contents different
3- conflict if contents different and color identical
4- conflict if contents different and color not RPMFC_ELF*
5- something else

Current rule in incremental installations is 3, right?

  OG.