Ok, real cool, this is very helpful - thanks a lot -- Thierry On Feb 2, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On 02/02/2013 02:32 PM, Thierry Parmentelat wrote: >> Hi there >> >> Following up on a scenario (an f14 physical box spinning off guests from fedora12 to fedora18), I've noticed something a bit off >> >> * in the official f12 repo (I know, I know, this is totally out-of-lived, but please stay with me for a second) I've found that glibc-common *and* filesystem were providing the same file(directory actually) entry '/usr/lib/locale' >> see below for the details >> >> * as I've explained in another post, this f14 box tuns out to run a custom rpm version, rebuilt essentially after the one that comes with f18 >> >> * the funny thing is, although this f12 repository worked quite fine of course with the f12 rpm, with this f18-ish rpm I get this error when trying to build an f12 filesystem: >> >> Transaction Check Error: >> file /usr/lib/locale conflicts between attempted installs of filesystem-2.4.30-2.fc12.i686 and glibc-common-2.11.2-3.i686 > > The directory permissions (most likely access bits but could be user/group too) differ between the packages. Older rpm versions were sloppy here and permitted this, but rpm >= 4.10 requires exact match of permissions for a shared file/directory. > >> >> I'm considering various options to work around that - like, rebuilding the filesystem rpm so that it does not (stupidly) expose this empty dir, but I thought maybe there is something simpler than that, like an option to this recent rpm to get backward compatibility ? > > There's no compatibility workaround for this in rpm, except the sledgehammer approach of --replacefiles. Rebuilding the filesystem package to either fix the permissions to match those of glibc or omit the directory is probably the path of least pain. > > Or alternatively, since you're already using a custom rpm on the host, revert this patch: > http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=cf1095648194104a81a58abead05974a5bfa3b9a > > - Panu - > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
