Re: Package name conflict

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Hello.

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 14:13, Tristan Miller wrote:
[snip]
> A problem I am running up against is that it seems that gpp was also the
> name of another, now-obsolete program from the GNU compiler package.  GNU
> gpp has been superseded by the GNU gcc-c++ RPM.  The problem is that the
> rpm program (and associated programs such as apt4rpm) do not distinguish
> between my gpp and GNU's gpp, so I end up with dependency errors such as
> the following when my gpp is installed:
[snip]

I don't know about apt4rpm, but with yum has a configuration option
where you can tell it to ignore updates for certain programs. For
example, I use this to ignore updates to "xmms" at home, because I
prefer my packages with MP3 support.

Maybe this would work for you?

Bye, Rich

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Richard Dawe
Software Engineer - Mail Engine
MessageLabs Ltd., UK


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