file conflicts with previous version

[Chris Lumens]

> >   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?).

anaconda (and preupgrade, for that matter) get around it by having a
whiteout list that tells us how to deal with these problems.  The
whiteout is available via a yum plugin from the anaconda-yum-plugins
package.

- Chris