file conflicts with previous version

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, James M. Leddy <jleddy at redhat.com> said:
>> 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
>
> The problem is that in F10, gpm was multilib on x86_64 (there is an i386
> and an x86_64 package).  In F11, the multilib parts of gpm were moved to
> a subpackage, gpm-libs, and only that subpackage is multilib (the only
> gpm base package in F11 is x86_64).
>
> I'm not sure how anaconda handles that (does the gpm.i386 just get
> left behind?).
>
> Maybe the gpm-libs package should have had an obsoletes on the last
> version that didn't have the separate gpm-libs package (0:1.20.5-2)?  I
> think that would have covered this case (or would that have just caused
> gpm to be removed unless something else requires the base gpm package?).

That sounds like it would  have been a good idea.
file a bug?

-sv