file conflicts with previous version

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue May 19 14:02:23 UTC 2009



On Tue, 19 May 2009, James M. Leddy wrote:

> I know that upgrading via yum is unsupported an not to ever do it and to use 
> preupgrade, but I'm still curious as to why I get messages like this:
>
>  file /etc/gpm-twiddler.conf from install of gpm-1.20.6-3.fc11.x86_64 
> conflicts with file from package gpm-1.20.5-2.fc10.i386
>
> Shouldn't it be obvious that you're going to replace files when upgrading a 
> package?

Those are different archs.

-sv




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