Script to detect conflicting files in PATH within a yum repo (was Re: conflict between libotf and openmpi)

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Thu Sep 17 01:17:41 UTC 2009


On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 21:10:16 -0400,
  Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> But the original problem was a file level conflict.  Is it ever valid for 2 
> packages to own the same file?

Yes. At a minimum the file's contents has to be identical in the two packages.




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