Conflicts in latest update

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, James Antill wrote:

>
> Rpmfusion can run auto QA like tests on rpmfusion and Fedora (I don't
> think we can legally do the same ... but I'm not sure). Finding the file
> conflicts automatically is harder (you need to download all the rpms),
> and it's not fast, but it's possible (Seth has a script, IIRC).

The script does this:

1. look up any potential conflicts in the filelists metadata
2. download the headers from those pkgs and see if the conflicts are real 
or fake conflicts (ie: multilib-allowed)

it's not fast - it has to traverse a lot of data, of course.
-sv