File conflicts

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:10:20 -0700, Chris wrote:

> I tried to use yum to install openchange-devel and that package seems to
> have a man page in common with the man package:
> 
> $ yum install openchange-devel
> <bunch o stuff>
> Transaction Check Error:
>   file /usr/share/man/man3/index.3.gz from install of
> openchange-devel-0.9-9.fc14.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
> man-pages-3.25-1.fc14.noarch
> 
> What is the right way to get around this conflict. I really probably
> don't need the man page version from openchange-devel, I'd rather keep
> the standard one.
> 
> Is there some way to tell yum to not intall the conflicting file, but
> install all the others ?
> 
> Thanks
> Chris Kottaridis

Working around a conflict in such a way would only lead to chaos.
Better would be to resolve the conflict by either moving one of the
files or by giving it an own namespace, such as openchange_index.

See http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/openchange
but a ticket has been filed already: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/654729