Re: files getting overwritten

On May 8, 2008, at 1:19 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> Subject: files getting overwritten
>
>
> 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?


I discovered it must be a function of RHEL's up2date.  rpm works as  
expected while up2date allows the overwrite


[root@webd-m01 etc]#  rpm -ivh http://kickstart/packages/dev/psi- 
test-1.1-dev.i386.rpm
Retrieving http://kickstart/packages/dev/psi-test-1.1-dev.i386.rpm
Preparing...                 
########################################### [100%]
    1:psi-test                
########################################### [100%]
[root@webd-m01 etc]#  rpm -ivh http://kickstart/packages/dev/psi- 
retest-2.2-dev.i386.rpm
Retrieving http://kickstart/packages/dev/psi-retest-2.2-dev.i386.rpm
Preparing...                 
########################################### [100%]
         file /usr/local/psi/testfile from install of psi-retest-2.2- 
dev conflicts with file from package psi-test-1.1-dev

-zaq

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