file conflicts with previous version

[Seth Vidal]

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

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>
> Good point.  Shortly after posting I realized I upgraded all of these 
> packages before using yum, but only the x86_64 versions.  Looks like I'm 
> going to have to do a few more manual installs.

Any reason you did others manually? Handling them in yum means the 
multilib trickery will be handled.

I know yum is not officially supported for upgrading from release to 
release but depending on the system it works on a largish number of cases.

-sv