On Tuesday 01 December 2009, Frank Mehnert wrote:
> Liang,
>
> On Tuesday 01 December 2009, Liang Suilong wrote:
> > I update to VirtualBox-3.1 from VirtualBox yum repo. After downloading
> > the package and starting to setup, yum shows an error. all of files in
> > VirtualBox-3.1 conflict with VirtualBox. I believe that the same problem
> > will appear in the SUSE and RHEL and openSUSE.
> >
> > Here is a log: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1352061/virtualbox_conflict.log
> >
> > The method which I slove the problem is that I install VirtualBox-3.1
> > after removing VirtualBox.
> >
> > Then I suggest that virtualbox should add "Obsoletes: VirtualBox" into
> > RPM spec file. Yum will remove VirtualBox automatically before installing
> > VirtualBox-3.1.
>
> Known problem, there is a remark about this conflict on the download page.
> Thanks for the hint.

I've decided to replace the .rpm packages. The new packages contain
no functional change, the only change is the ''Obsoletes: '' field
which makes updating easier as

  rpm -U VirtualBox-3.1-...

works now. It will take 2 hours from now until all packages are
replaced on the download server. Users which have already installed one
of the original 3.1.0 .rpm packages don't need to touch anything.

Kind regards,

Frank
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