yum conflict

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 22:45:39 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 02:29 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:11:19 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> > > Error: libid3tag conflicts with libmad < 0.15.1b
> 
> > and Livna's libmad is 0.15.1b, so it's a sufficient software version:
> > 
> > $ rpm -q libmad
> > libmad-0.15.1-0.lvn.1.b.4
> 
> No, that version says "0.15.1". The "b" is actually in the release,
> which of course doesn't count as part of the version for Require/
> Conflict checking.

Hence it is still MAD 0.15.1b as I said.  And you see how dangerous
conflicting packaging styles can get. This is an an explicit "Conflicts:
libmad < 0.15.1b" in a libid3tag package. This libid3tag packages causes
breakage wherever MAD >= 0.15.1b is not provided in exactly the way this
versioning scheme mandates. It ought to be enough if the repository, which provides libid3tag, provides a new-enough libmad without such a conflict.
There's no comment on why the Conflict is in there, see other message.