File conflicts, how do they work at that point?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 20 Nov 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.

Yeah, an ancient bug... just been fixed in F8 to show the arch too for all 
problems.

> 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...

The rules haven't changed since the introduction of multilib (rpm 4.0 days 
or so): on multilib systems conflicts on files of same color are swallowed 
when the conflicting packages are installed in the same transaction, but 
when installed in separate transactions conflicts are raised.

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.

 	- Panu -