Problem updating rpmdevtools

alan alan at clueserver.org
Tue Aug 28 16:24:17 UTC 2007


On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:

> Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> 
>> I run an update today. The list of available packages included
>> rpmdevtools. The problem is that the transaction test failed with:
>>
>>  file /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths-worker from install of
>> rpm-build-4.4.2.1-1.fc6 conflicts with file from package
>> rpmdevtools-5.3-1.fc6
>>
>   If rpm-build is part of rpmdevtools then it is a problem with loading a 
> new version. This can be solved with rpm -U but I think update knows this.
>
>   If the system is working fine for you why get the update?

Because it could be a security fix.  Updates are not marked as to WHY they 
are updated.  (Unless you read the change log and sometimes that does not 
tell you either.)

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