[FC2] Upgrading of cdrecord

Don Russell don at drussell.dnsalias.com
Tue Jun 15 13:20:25 UTC 2004


Niilo Kajander said:
> antonio montagnani wrote:
>> ust upgraded to FC2 and struggling with some problem.....This is what I
>> get during the first update:
>>
>> Test install failed because of package conflicts:
>> file /usr/bin/dvdrecord from install of cdrecord-2.01-0.a27.4 conflicts
>> with file from package dvdrecord-0.1.5-1
>> file /usr/share/man/man1/dvdrecord.1.gz from install of
>> cdrecord-2.01-0.a27.4 conflicts with file from
>> package dvdrecord-0.1.5-1
>>
>> Any hint???
>>
>
> rpm -e dvdrecord

I just learned that yesterday....

It got me thinking... if one package makes another obsolete, can the
"checking dependencies" thing be made aware of that and thus automatically
remove the old, obsolete package? (Possibly with a suitable
warning/prompt?

Just an idea...

Thanks,
Don





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