Multilib help?

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Jan 26 17:03:30 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:43:35PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Note that rpm < 4.6.0 did behave differently here: packages with 
> conflicting files were allowed to be installed in the same transaction but 
> not if installed separately, leading to strange situations. So if there's 
> a chance you've tested on RHEL/Centos at some point, that could explain it 
> as it'd then be just a matter of which order the packages got installed 
> in.

That could well explain why we've only seen this reported on EPEL 5.
I thought it was a coincidence, but looks like it could be the older
RPM version there.

Rich.

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