[Fedora-packaging] Re: rpm -i, "missing" file conflicts and brokenness with kmods

[Bill Nottingham]

Axel Thimm (Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net) said: 
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 08:24:25PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 02:19 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > o rpm -i behaves properly with file conflicts
> > > o yum may for some reason turn of file conflict checking
> > 
> > There is no code in yum that disables file conflict checking.
> 
> I wouldn't think so myself, but Thorsten's report seems to indicate
> this.
> 
> Is there some other explanation why people don't see file conflicts
> under yum?

rpm does not properly detect multilib conflicts when packages are
installed in the same transaction. This is a RPM bug, and has
nothing to do with yum.

Bug 190209, if you're curious.

Bill