On Tuesday 01 December 2009, Frank Mehnert wrote: > 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.
After some more tests it turned out that this decision was wrong. When doing ''yum update'', a VirtualBox-3.0.12 package will be automatically replaced by VirtualBox-3.1.0 which is exactly what I wanted to prevent. The user should decide itself when he wants to switch between 3.0.12 and 3.1.0, this shouldn't be done automatically. Therefore I have to revert this change. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring
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