File conflicts in Fedora Extras Development

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:30:22 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:46:16 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > 
> > > > gnumeric-1.6.3-2.fc6.i386.rpm
> > > >   File conflict with: /usr/share/gnumeric/1.6.3/idl/GNOME_Gnumeric.idl
> > > >   => Package conflicts with: gnumeric-devel - 1:1.6.3-2.fc6.i386
> > > >
> > > > gnumeric-devel-1.6.3-2.fc6.i386.rpm
> > > >   File conflict with: /usr/share/gnumeric/1.6.3/idl/GNOME_Gnumeric.idl
> > > >   => All file names in this package are found in the repository elsewhere!
> > > >   => Package conflicts with: gnumeric - 1:1.6.3-2.fc6.i386
> > > 
> > > How can it conflict with it's own *subpackage*? (See also, heartbeat.)
> > 
> > Sloppy packaging, creating a -devel sub-package for a file which is
> > already included in the main package.
> > 
> > Call it "soft conflict" if you like to.
> 
> So these are common files, not necessarily 'file conflicts'?

In the case of gnumeric/gnumeric-devel, yes. In other cases they are real
conflicts.

Whether the files are exactly the same (not just in checksum, but also in
uid/gid and mode) will need more automation.