conflict between packages

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:09:31 +0100, Frank wrote:

> On 21/08/09 20:24, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:19:16 +0100, Frank wrote:
> >
> >> On 21/08/09 19:09, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> THis is the message that I got:
> >>>
> >>> est Transaction Errors: file
> >>> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/25-unhint-nonlatin.conf from install of
> >>> fontconfig-2.7.1-1.fc11.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
> >> --snip--
> >>
> >> yum --skip-broken
> >
> > Won't help as it only covers the depsolving stage. Above is a
> > conflict that is only discovered during the transaction test.
> >
> 
> 
> has worked for me where i686 and x86_64 had conflicts,
> which part of the transfer had no idea.

The implementation doesn't do that. The skip-broken code only handles
dependency errors. It kicks in if unresolved dependencies are found. Only
then it excludes packages from the transaction set and returns to the
dependency resolving stage. On the contrary, the transaction test with
RPM comes later, and if there are errors, they are fatal.