At 7:52 AM +0100 8/3/05, Paul Howarth wrote: >On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 17:19 -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote: ... >My understanding of the way Fedora multilib support works is that rpm >will allow you to simultaneously install .i386 and .x86_64 versions of >exactly the same package and it won't complain about file conflicts - it >just ignores the .i386 versions of conflicting files. This is how it was >possible for .i386 and .x86_64 versions of perl to coexist in FC3. If >you then try to update one but not the other, it breaks because the >epoch/version/release numbers aren't the same and the file conflicts are >no longer ignored. > >The OP's file conflicts were: > file /usr/bin/mozilla from install of >mozilla-1.7.10-1.5.1 conflicts with file from package mozilla-1.7.8-2 > file /usr/share/man/man1/mozilla.1.gz from install of >mozilla-1.7.10-1.5.1 conflicts with file from package mozilla-1.7.8-2 > >Different versions/releases, so that's why there was a conflict. In such cases, a more explicit error message would be very helpful. Something like "Multi-lib support conflict (.i386 package <foo-version1> vs. .x86_64 package <foor-version2>):", followed by the conflicts. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
