On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 02:04:45PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
I working to update my kernel and I have run into the following conflict:
# rpm -ivh ../noarch/kernel-source-2.6.31.12-2.1.noarch.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] file /etc/rpm/macros.kernel-source from install of kernel-source-2.6.31.12-2.1 conflicts with file from package kernel-source-2.6.25.20-0.7 file /usr/lib/rpm/kernel-module-subpackage from install of kernel-source-2.6.31.12-2.1 conflicts with file from package kernel-source-2.6.25.20-0.7
The files are text files, and I'm almost willing to bet they would be identical, but don't know, so I'm concerned enough to beg for help before I do something dumb like forcing this into place.
The kernel is from:
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/hennichodernich:/backpor...
and I was interesting in checking it out. On all prior kernel installs where I have had multiple kernels installed (with rpm -ivh), I've never received this error before ... and I regularly have 2-3 different kernel packages installed. I guess the problem is most likely a packaging problem, but don't know enough about suse kernel packaging to be sure.
So what say the kernel experts, Can I safely ignore the conflict and overwrite the above files safely?
kernel-source is the source, and not a binary package. The binary packages are capable to be installed in parallel, kernel-source was not really designed for it. The files probably did not change that much. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org