Re: files getting overwritten

On Wed, 7 May 2008, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Zac Elston wrote:
>
>> Greetings.
>>
>> I'm attempting to demonstrate how RPMs will save the developer's butt
>> by not allowing a file to be overwritten and during my demo, PackageB
>> overwrites PackageA's file
>>
>> [root@webd-m01 ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/local/testfile
>> psi-test-1-dev
>> psi-retest-2-dev
>>
>> what did I do wrong?
>
> Nothing, as long as the file is the *same* (content, checksum, permissions,
> timestamp, etc), then it's perfectly legal to be owned by multiple pkgs.

If that's the case, and all those things are the same, how can he even 
tell it's been overwritten?

-Dan

>
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