FC3 rpm behavior change
Nathan G. Grennan
fedora-devel-list at cygnusx-1.org
Sat Oct 30 20:02:19 UTC 2004
On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 01:20 -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
> The FC3 Release Notes say:
>
> =============
> RPM's default behavior regarding file conflicts in Fedora Core 3 has
> changed. In the past, file conflicts (where a file from one
> already-installed package also appears in a package that is to be
> installed) caused the installation of the package containing the
> conflicting file to abort.
>
> In Fedora Core 3, RPM will ignore such conflicts, and the package
> installation will proceed, overwriting any conflicting files from
> previously-installed packages.
> ============
>
> What's the rationale for this?
The url below seems to give a clue.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131766
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