Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453851 --- Comment #22 from Mattias Ellert <mattias.ellert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2009-04-20 00:15:48 EDT --- (In reply to comment #21) > When two packages contain the same file in the same path, there is always a > problem, even if they are identical. The packages will not install because rpm > will say that they conflict. > > Am I missing something? The packages will only conflict if the files are different. If they are the same there is no problem installing both packages (like on F-9 and F-10 in this case): [ellert@ellert ~]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/share/globus/config.guess globus-common-progs-10.2-1.fc9.i386 grid-packaging-tools-3.2-17.fc9.noarch That it is possible does of course not mean this is a good thing to do in this case. This feature is regularly used to allow multi-arch installations where e.g. header files are the same in the -devel package for i386 an x86_64, but can be installed simultaneously. But this is as far as I see the only really valid usecase for it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review