Is RPM now stricter about checking for file conflicts?

Michel Alexandre Salim salimma at fedoraproject.org
Mon Oct 29 03:20:40 UTC 2012


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On 10/28/2012 04:08 AM, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 01:45:43 +0700 Michel Alexandre Salim
> <salimma at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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>> (originally posted to test@; Adam Williamson suggested it might
>> be more appropriate here)
>> 
>> Ever since I started tracking Fedora 18, Google Music Manager is
>> no longer installable, and now Oracle's Virtual Box cannot be
>> installed either (both from upstream Yum repositories).
>> 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870655
>> 
>> In both cases, RPM and yum aborts with file conflicts --
>> /lib/modules for VirtualBox and /usr/bin for
>> google-musicmanager.
> 
> Perhaps the directory ownership or permissions are different from
> the ones in the filesystem package?
> 
Is there any RPM-fu I can use to extract the ownership and permissions
from the package for comparison?

Thanks,

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Michel Alexandre Salim
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