file conflicts with previous version
Jon Ciesla
limb at jcomserv.net
Tue May 19 14:05:38 UTC 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?
>
Unsupportedness aside, it usually does work. The kicker here appears to
be that it looks like you're trying to upgrade from F-10-i386 to
F-11-x86_64. This will most certainly *not* work.
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