Re: ATI driver update problems (old driver for XFree86 4.3.x to new driver for Xorg 6.8.1)

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Hi,


thanks for your help.
they provide exact the same files.
So i will update them now!




> Sven wrote:
> > I did that because of the first error message "xxx conflicts with xxxx"
> > I wanted to remove the old driver first, because rpm -Uh --force
> > file_name did end with that message too.
> > So i cannot install the new package before removing the old one.
> > I'm also thinking like you, but as i said i want to have Xorg and all
> > the other rpms working after the update.
> 
> If package "fglrx" supersedes "fglrx-glc22" then really the packager 
> should have included an "Obsoletes: fglrx-glc22" tag in package "fglrx". 
> This would have allowed an upgrade to "fglrx" to remove the old 
> "fglrx-glc22" package.
> 
> One way you can check that "fglrx" can safely replace "fglrx-glc22" 
> would be to check what the two packages provide.
> 
> First, look at what your installed "fglrx-glc22" package provides:
> 
> $ rpm -q --provides fglrx-glc22
> 
> Then see what your new package provides:
> 
> $ rpm -qp --provides fglrx_6_8_0-8.10.19-1.i386.rpm
> 
> If the latter is a superset of the former then you *should* be OK to get 
> rid of the old one and add the new one in as a replacement.
> 
> Paul.
> 

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