(a more detailed followup to an earlier post to fedora-list, but that seems to be more appropriate here now that i've looked at it more closely.) when i went to install the dpkg RPM i got from www.rpmfind.net, i was told that there was a file conflict with the file /usr/sbin/update-alternatives from the chkconfig package. sure enough, the current file by that name on my FC1 system is a symlink to the file alternatives in the same directory, while the dpkg RPM wants to overwrite that with an actual executable. i know i can cram the RPM on with "--force", but i'm always reluctant to do that. although, since it's just a symlink, i know i can always restore it later. i'm just curious why dpkg thinks it needs an update-alternatives program in the first place. more to the point, i was interested in whether there was a way to query an RPM file to see if there were looming conflicts. when i tried $ rpm -qp --conflicts <dpkg file> i was told there were no conflicts. ok, so i guess that means no conflicts at the package or capability level, but certainly, there's a conflict at the file level. should i not expect to be told about that as well? just curious. and what's the recommended way to install this rpm, besides just "--force"? or is that the way to go in this case? rday _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
