Re: file conflicts

On Thu, 21 May 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:

> On the x86_64 systems I am bumping into this quite a bit:
>
> file /usr/share/....fileX in PKG.x86_64 conflicts with file from PKG.i586 (or 
> i386)
>
> These packages are trying to write out the same man pages or other docs to 
> the exact same file.  It would seem that there needs to be some type of 
> versioning related to documentation so that you could have multiple versions 
> of the same package installed. 
> The next question is how do you get around this problem.  I've had to use 
> 'rpm --force' to get by this type of problem.  Is that the only solution?
>

It depends on the pkgs involved in the error:

if the pkgs are different versions and different archs then you need to 
get the same ver of both archs. If you STILL get the error then you have 
found a packaging bug and need to report it to whomever provided those 
pkgs.


hope this helps.
-sv