file conflicts with previous version

[James M. Leddy]

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.

-- 
James M. Leddy

Technical Account Manager
Red Hat Inc.