On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 23:09 +0100, Paul Jakma wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > > So...am I the only one who regularly runs into trouble trying to follow > > rawhide on x86-64? Recent example: an update just failed with: > > > > Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man5/ldap.conf.5.gz from install of openldap-2.2.28-2 conflicts with file from package openldap-2.2.26-1 > > > > ...and so on. The problem is always conflicts between the x86-64 and > > i386 versions of packages. > > > Interestingly, if I do "yum update openldap", it will update the > > package for both architectures, and the problem goes away. > > Note that is a really /really/ nasty aspect of yum. It essentially > force installs (AFAICT) and clobbers the files which are in both > packages. Not a problem if they're arch-independent, but if the > packaging error is for an arch-dependent file on or other of the > arches will be broken. > > I wish yum wouldn't do force installs, it makes me *very* nervous > about using yum on multi-arch machines. > yum doesn't force anything. there is, at no time, the force options used in yum, at all where did you get this idea? -sv -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list