File conflicts, how do they work at that point?

[Olivier Galibert]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 05:28:00PM +0100, 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...

Ok, now it's getting interesting:

[root at m42 ~]# rpm -Uvh /vol/corpora/system/fc8-64/Packages/mono-core-1.2.5.1-3.fc8.i386.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
        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
[root at m42 ~]# rpm -e --nodeps mono-core
[root at m42 ~]# rpm -Uvh /vol/corpora/system/fc8-64/Packages/mono-core-1.2.5.1-3.fc8.*.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:mono-core              ########################################### [ 50%]
   2:mono-core              ########################################### [100%]

Ouch.  That's a killer.

  OG.