replacing files owned by another package

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed Apr 19 12:29:18 UTC 2006


Once upon a time, Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> said:
> > However, I don't know how rpm would handle two different RPMs providing
> > the same 'perl(SomeModule)'.
> 
> This latter point is the key one. It could potentially throw other perl
> packages for a loop when they rely on the modules provided by perl, but
> instead, find the newer modules.

Modules won't care what rpm thinks; they'll work just fine as long as
perl sees the updated modules (which it should just fine).

Depending on the module, the RPM provides may already be versioned, so
there may not even be an issue there.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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