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.


-- 
James M. Leddy

Red Hat Inc.




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