Multilib help?

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Tue Jan 26 17:47:10 UTC 2010


On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:43:35PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> Note that rpm < 4.6.0 did behave differently here: packages with
>> conflicting files were allowed to be installed in the same transaction but
>> not if installed separately, leading to strange situations. So if there's
>> a chance you've tested on RHEL/Centos at some point, that could explain it
>> as it'd then be just a matter of which order the packages got installed
>> in.
>
> That could well explain why we've only seen this reported on EPEL 5.
> I thought it was a coincidence, but looks like it could be the older
> RPM version there.

Okay, if it has only been seen on EPEL then no need to look further. IIRC 
it got fixed in RHEL 5 too, 5.3 or thereabouts.

 	- Panu -


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