[Fedora-packaging] Multiple file ownership allowed nowadays?

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Mon Jan 30 12:31:45 UTC 2012


Am Sonntag, den 29.01.2012, 23:38 -0500 schrieb Jon Stanley:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Christoph Wickert
> <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I wonder if this rule is still needed. I know I'd loose backward
> > compatibility with older rpm versions, but I don't want make a
> 
> I agree that a -common subpackage is silly for this, but are any of
> the RPM versions that this *wouldn't* work with still in supported
> releases?

Not in Fedora.

> The only one I'd be concerned with is RHEL5, but I think even that
> works right, no?

I haven't tested it, but based on my experience with multi-arch file
conflicts I *guess* it will not work on RHEL 5.

Regards,
Christoph



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