yum update failed today with....

[Panu Matilainen]

On 04/25/2012 07:45 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Kevin Martin<ktmdms at gmail.com>  said:
>> Transaction Check Error:
>>    file /usr/bin from install of google-chrome-unstable-20.0.1115.1-133713.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
>> filesystem-3.1-1.fc18.x86_64
>
> It looks like a bunch of the common directories have been changed to
> read-only in the filesystem package (haven't seen any notice/discussion
> about that, but maybe I missed it).

The permission difference might've been there forever, rpm has only very 
recently (in rawhide) started to raise file conflicts when 
user/group/mode differences.

>
> The other issue would be: why is google-chrome-unstable (wherever you
> are getting that from) packaing the /usr/bin directory?  It shouldn't do
> that.

Yup, its a packaging bug in google-chrome.

	- Panu -