Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (59 mails)

[Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> * Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@xxxxxxxxxx> [Nov 17. 2008 19:44]:
> > Would it be possible to examine the package before installation, to check 
> > for the files it contains against the RPM db or the filesystem ?
>
> Technically, yes. But it would required parsing the RPM header of
> every downloaded package, iterating through its filelist and searching
> each entry in the rpmdb. And this would not catch conflicts againts
> packages of the same transaction.

Yah, looks like a lot of overhead.

> Its probably not worth the effort. Arbitrary file conflicts are very,
> very seldomly needed.

They are not in our own packages :-) Third parties... the horrors there 
should not be discounted.

Probably the solution is that if someday we move away from force-nodeps 
towards transactions, file conflicts would be then caught at runtime by rpm.

Best -F

> Klaus
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