gdm vs. kde-settings-kdm issue?

Sat Jun 9 13:05:57 UTC 2012

On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 10:02:22 +0200,
   Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 17:34:19 -0700, Rob Healey wrote:
>
>> Transaction Check Error:
>>   file /var/spool/gdm from install of gdm-1:3.5.2-1.fc18.x86_64 conflicts
>> with file from package kde-settings-kdm-4.8-14.fc18.noarch
>>
>> Error Summary
>> -------------
>>
>> I do not understand what gdm has to do with kdm?  It is completely two
>> different display managers...
>
>I don't understand your conclusion. Could you rephrase your question?
>
>There are two separate packages, and they conflict with eachother in one
>of the files they contain. It's a bug in the packages.

I reported this on May 5th. The issue is that there are different permission 
settings in two packages that co-own a file. rpm didn't use to care about 
this, but now it does (in rawhide).

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=819254