On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:48:15 -0400 Matthew Miller wrote: > The specific thing in multilib is that the files can overlap without being > identical. In perfectly normal RPM, two packages can own an identical file > as long as it is actually bit-for-bit identical. (This is, of course, > fragile when there's an update to one package but not the others.)
Then why, in Fedora 18, did yum start giving fatal errors and refuse to install packages that tried to create the same directory? (Which is why I suspect there are a gazillion rpms named "something-filesystem-something.rpm" that just create directories for other rpms to install into.) > That seems like a completely awesome thing to avoid. Avoiding reflecting actual reality is a good thing? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
