Re: file conflicts

Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
If you do:
yum install PKG # want x86_64 version

sometimes you will get the file conflict error because the existing 
PKG.i586 is not at the same version as what is in the repository for 
PKG.x86_64. So I think yum should see that and schedule an update for 
PKG.i586 and then the file check would succeed. Right now you have to 
deal with this manually.

Regards,
Gerry