Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (59 mails)

[Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Would it be possible to examine the package before installation, to 
check for the files it contains against the RPM db or the filesystem ?

I imagine this does not fit with the architecture at all... but it is 
the only way I can think of w/o the filelist.

Best -F

Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> * Matt Barringer <mbarringer@xxxxxxx> [Nov 17. 2008 18:15]:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What's the correct way to catch file conflicts between packages?  I've 
> > tried adding the entries in filelist.xml using repodata_add_dirstr, but the 
> > solver isn't looking at them.
>
> filelist.xml is ignored due to its size. And in 99.9% of all cases its
> data is not used anyways ;-)
>
> > Is my only option to add those files to solvable->provides?
>
> Afaik, yes.
>
> Klaus
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