Dax Kelson wrote:
Then my hunch about this were right. I was yelling a bit about that on IRC, but most people claimedThe FC3 Release Notes say:
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RPM's default behavior regarding file conflicts in Fedora Core 3 has
changed. In the past, file conflicts (where a file from one
already-installed package also appears in a package that is to be
installed) caused the installation of the package containing the
conflicting file to abort.
In Fedora Core 3, RPM will ignore such conflicts, and the package
installation will proceed, overwriting any conflicting files from
previously-installed packages.
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What's the rationale for this?
Dax
RPM does NOT work like that. Apparantly it does on my system. Rather bad imho, it allows for easily
screw up.
