On 03/06/2012 06:56 AM, Nelson Manuel Marques wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to clear a doubt if possible regarding the installation of RPM's and potential conflicts. Here's somehow a twisted use case:
>
> 1) 2 RPMs: foobar-1.0.noarch.rpm and foobar-2.0.noarch.rpm
> 2) Both RPMs have exactly the contents: %{_sysconfdir}/foobar.conf
> 3) The contents of the file foobar.conf are the same in both RPM's, it has a single line with: Hello World!
>
> Now, if I do:
>
> # rpm -ivh foobar-1.0.noarch.rpm && rpm -ivh foobar-2.0.noarch.rpm
>
> Both RPMs install perfectly. Please notice I'm doing '-i' and not '-U'. Is this the intended behavior of the RPM ? Shouldn't it return a conflict because the file is already installed ?
>
> If I change the contents of the file, so that both RPM's have the same file with different contents (which makes a different hash), the conflict does exist.
>
> Anyone could clarify to me why one conflicts (which I believe to be the intended behavior using '-i') and if the files are exactly the same they don't conflict and it allows install...
I do not believe RPM considers identical files in multiple packages to
be a conflict. This is intentional.
~tom
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