x86-64 rawhide update obnoxiousness
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Sat Oct 15 06:38:51 UTC 2005
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, seth vidal wrote:
>
>> yum doesn't force anything.
>>
>> there is, at no time, the force options used in yum, at all
>>
>> where did you get this idea?
>
> How does it manage to install rpms which install files already installed by
> other RPMs then?
>
> 'rpm' itself wouldn't allow this without the force argument, also whatever
> way apt-get uses librpm it allows librpm to raise the error in exact same way
> as if rpm had been used without the force argument. With Yum OTOH there are
> no errors and the rpm is installed - hence the reasonable conclusion that it
> specifies whatever librpm equivalent of 'force' - if it's due to something
> else, then the user-visible effect at least is identical.
>
> I wish yum wouldn't do that.
Get over it, yum isn't forcing anything, you can't even tell it to force
anything! The same thing happens with rpm-cli as well: when you
install/upgrade both the i386 and x86_64 packages simultanously, rpm
"swallows" file conflicts between multilib packages. Whether that's a sane
thing to do is another question. That behavior is within rpmlib, not
specific to yum or anything else.
- Panu -
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