Base vs EPEL check

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi,

Is there any repository checking being done automatically to make sure 
packages in the EPEL repository do not conflict with the base 
repository? Just curious. Seems like some of aspell packages do.

Rahul

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:22:28 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any repository checking being done automatically to make sure 
> packages in the EPEL repository do not conflict with the base 
> repository?

Not that I know of. It would be best done with local access to all
packages, so one can really compare all files (and do symlink vs.
directory and permission conflicts checks, too).
> Just curious. Seems like some of aspell packages do.

I only have an unfinished conflicts checker for remote repositories.
For i386 it finds:

dahdi-tools-2.0.0-2.el5.i386
  File conflict with: zaptel-utils-1.4.11-1.el5.i386
     /usr/sbin/fxotune
     /usr/share/man/man8/fxotune.8.gz

dahdi-tools-libs-2.0.0-2.el5.i386
  File conflict with: zaptel-lib-1.4.11-1.el5.i386
     /usr/lib/libtonezone.so.1.0

For EPEL 4 the results are worse (the first one is particularly
embarrassing and looks like typical %dist mass-build madness):

gsl-static-1.10-10.el4.i386
  File conflict with: gsl-devel-1.5-2.rhel4.i386
     /usr/lib/libgsl.a
     /usr/lib/libgslcblas.a

iwidgets-4.0.1-4.el4.noarch
  File conflict with: tk-devel-8.4.7-3.el4_6.1.i386
     /usr/share/man/mann/dialog.n.gz
     /usr/share/man/mann/menubar.n.gz

perl-XML-RegExp-0.03-2.el4.noarch
  File conflict with: perl-libxml-enno-1.02-31.noarch
     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/XML/RegExp.pm
     /usr/share/man/man3/XML::RegExp.3pm.gz

powerman-1.0.25-2.el4.i386
  File conflict with: festival-1.4.2-25.i386
     /usr/bin/pm

uw-imap-2007b-1.el4.i386
  File conflict with: cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-9.RHEL4.i386
     /etc/pam.d/imap
     /etc/pam.d/pop

uw-imap-static-2007b-1.el4.i386
  File conflict with: libc-client-devel-2002e-14.i386
     /usr/lib/c-client.a