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Summary: Review Request: libtune - standard API to access the kernel tunables
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=210007
------- Additional Comments From nadia.derbey@bull.net 2008-02-01 04:58 EST ------- Ok, this is exactly what I suspected: tried to change the README file delivered by tunables-base-data, and here's the result I got:
<snip> D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Name create mode=0x42 D: read h# 913 Header SHA1 digest: OK (4c878e96685b21513e679f21dc15cc800d901239) D: read h# 917 Header SHA1 digest: OK (16ffc11b812ff117879d896cc00e7e5ac100d998) D: computing 5 file fingerprints Preparing... D: computing file dispositions D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Basenames create mode=0x42 ########################################### [100%] package tunables-base-data-2.6.21-0.14-5.fc8 is already installed file /usr/share/libtune/doc/README from install of tunables-base-data-2.6.21-0.14-5.fc8 conflicts with file from package tunables-base-data-2.6.21-0.14-4.fc8 file /usr/share/libtune/doc/README from install of tunables-base-data-2.6.21-0.14-5.fc8 conflicts with file from package tunables-base-data-2.6.21-0.14-5.fc8 D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Basenames D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: May free Score board((nil)) [root@akt i386]# echo $? 1
So sounds like it is normal to be able to install a newer version over an older one without conflicts problems, given that the common files have the same contents.