File conflicts in Fedora Extras Development

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:30:48 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > uw-imap-2004g-4.fc5.2.i386.rpm
> >   File conflict with: /etc/pam.d/imap
> >   File conflict with: /etc/pam.d/pop
> >   File conflict with: /usr/share/man/man8/imapd.8.gz
> >   => Package conflicts with: cyrus-imapd - 2.3.1-2.6.fc5.i386
> 
> Hmm... Not sure how best to fix this, probably rename the offending files to
> use a uw- prefix.  I'd ask that cyrus-imapd do something similar.
> 
> > uw-imap-devel-2004g-4.fc5.2.i386.rpm
> >   => All file names in this package are found in the repository elsewhere!
> >   => Package conflicts with: libc-client-devel - 2004g-2.2.i386
> 
> Known, which is why this package already includes:
> Conflicts: libc-client-devel
> A smarter version of this script could probably omit bits already marked
> with a Conflicts: tag.  (:

At this point it would only confirm that there is an explicit
Conflict in Extras.

I'd rather see an official policy from the Packaging Group about
Conflicts in general.