file conflicts with previous version
James M. Leddy
jleddy at redhat.com
Tue May 19 14:28:22 UTC 2009
Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>
> 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
I wanted to make sure that my system survived the python-2.5 -> 2.6
switch, so I updated rpm, python, yum and a lot of deps manually.
I'll keep that info in mind in the future though.
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James M. Leddy
Red Hat Inc.
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