FC3 rpm behavior change

[Pete Zaitcev]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:06:43 -0600, Stuart Jansen <sjansen at gurulabs.com> wrote:

> > > >    In Fedora Core 3, RPM will ignore such conflicts, and the package
> > > >    installation will proceed, overwriting any conflicting files from
> > > >    previously-installed packages.
> > > 
> > > Is there any way to revert to the previous behaviour ?
> > 
> > rpm --fileconflicts
> 
> So we've got a reply from an @redhat.com that says how to avoid the
> behavior. But we haven't heard what the reason for the change was.

There's nothing magic about "a reply from an @redhat.com". I've got such
an address, too, but so what. Wait until you see a mail from Jeff Johnson
or Christian Gafton. It's a weekend.

-- Pete