Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (59 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 08:11:05PM +0100, Matt Barringer wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Michael Schroeder wrote:
>
> > Uh, filelist.xml can't help you with file content conflicts, as it
> > doesn't contain the file md5 checksum. Or are you talking about
> > explicit "Conflicts: /some/file" dependencies?
>
> Right now I'm not concerned with file content conflicts, I'm just trying 
> to get the solver to error out when two packages provide the same 
> filename.  Adding the names to the provides doesn't do it.

True, because it's not an error if two packages share the same
file (as long as the content is the same). Fedora uses this fact
a lot for their multilib implementation.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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