On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Fulko Hew <fulko....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 5:29 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth < > tchollingswo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Fulko Hew <fulko....@gmail.com> wrote: >> > file /usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz of vim-common-2:7.4.189-1.fc20.i686 >> > conflicts with file from package vim-minimal-2:7.4.027-2.fc20.i686 >> >> Both vim-common and vim-minimal ship a copy of the vim man page. >> Ordinarily, this does not result in an RPM conflict, since the files >> will be identical in both packages. >> >> However, you seem to have different versions of vim-common and >> vim-minimal, so the file is not identical, thus resulting in the >> conflict. Update vim-minimal to be the same version as vim-common, >> and the problem will go away. >> > > Those were the magic words to explain what(s) happened. > > To perform my install tests, I always want to start with a virgin system; > so I always reboot a new copy of the live CD, and then do the install > of my package. If anything is wrong, I fix it, rebuild my package, reboot' > a new Live CD, and retest, and repeat, repeat, etc. > > Because its a live cd boot, I never do a 'yum update' first. > (Why bother? its a working CD, and yum will pull in any dependencies > _my_ package needs.) > > But... my package's post-install routines do add a sudo config value > and so it 'requires' sudo, and the sudo package in turn requires (I think) > the vim-common package, and this new vim-common is/contains a > newer/current version that is incompatible with the version of the > vim-minimal package that was built into the live CD. > > I'll test that hypothesis tomorrow at work by updating the live environment > first, before performing the install of _my_ package. > Following up as promised... Yes. I need to perform an 'yum update vim-minimal' first, to avoid the issue. So there's an incompatibility between the vim-minimal packaged with the Live CD and vim-common today. Too bad vim-common isn't/can't-be defined to 'supersede' an older vim-minimal.
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