Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (508 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 00:19 +0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
> When zypper upgraded it installed xorg-x11-libxcb-devel and left files 
> from the old one in place. It seems it's not able to detect and deal 
> with a package name that differs but offers largely the same files, so 
> it leaves any file that isn't part of the current package in place.
> In fact it leaves the old package installed.
>
> I shall open a bug later.

That isn't a bug. Two packages with different names are different
packages, and zypper shouldn't try to be clever - it will mess up all
sorts of things

If a package changes name the packager should tell rpm (and by extension
zypper) about it by using a tag such as obsoletes:

In your case, the package was called -unstable which probably means it
was intended to be installed in parallel with the normal one

If there is a bug here, it is that zypper installed the new package with
--force, which IMHO is wrong, it shouldn't just overwrite files, it
should refuse to install the new package until the collisions have been
removed

Anders

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