On 30 Oct 2004 16:25:57 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > And honestly, changing RPM's behaviour in such a way after Test3 is a > > very questionable decision. > > Personally, I don't like the change either. That said, I don't think > the change was made after the freeze. I think it was only documented > after the freeze, Seems so. rpm-4.3.2-2 from Test 2 overwrites files happily already, resulting in duplicate installs when "-ivh" is used. # rpm -i test-1.0-2.i386.rpm # rpm -i test-1.0-3.i386.rpm # rpm -q test test-1.0-2 test-1.0-3 # rpm -V test S.5....T /bin/bash32 S.5....T /bin/ls32 > just because that's the time when people get > together to figure out what should have been in the test release notes > all along but wasn't. If anything, kudos for documenting such a big > and controversial change so openly. I hope it's eventually reverted, > but, meanwhile, people at least know what to add to their rpmrc files > to get the old behavior back. Now what does this comment from Sep 5th mean? Who knows? * Sun Sep 05 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj@xxxxxxxxxx> 4.3.2-2 [...] - restore file conflict detection traditional behavior. [...] * Tue Jul 06 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj@xxxxxxx> 4.3.2-0.5 [...] - add --fileconflicts to recover rpm traditional behavior. [...] -- Fedora Core release 2.92 (FC3 Test 3) - Linux 2.6.9-1.640 loadavg: 0.83 0.54 0.28
