Bug 1244467

Summary:	dnf upgrade produces conflict messages relating to rsyslogd/syslog-ng
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	George R. Goffe <grgoffe>
Component:	syslog-ng	Assignee:	Jose Pedro Oliveira <jose.p.oliveira.oss>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	22	CC:	bruno, jose.p.oliveira.oss, jsilhan, jzeleny, mluscon, mrunge, packaging-team-maint, peter, rayvd, silfreed, terje.rosten, tim.lauridsen, vmukhame
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Description George R. Goffe 2015-07-19 01:48:32 UTC

Description of problem:

Running "dnf -y upgrade" to pick up the latest updates to Fedora 22 generated error messages "Error: Transaction check error:
  file /etc/logrotate.d/syslog from install of rsyslog-8.8.0-3.fc22.x86_64 conflicts with file from package syslog-ng-3.6.2-2.fc22.x86_64'

I'm not sure if this a UFU (user foul up). This system has both rsyslog and syslog-ng installed. I'm not sure how that happened, might have come out of the box that way. Is there a recommended version to use?


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
syslog-ng-3.6.2-2.fc22.x86_64
rsyslog-8.8.0-2.fc22.x86_64


How reproducible:
For now, always.

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Comment 1 Radek Holy 2015-07-21 13:20:27 UTC

This seems to be a recurring issue.
As far as I know, it is not allowed to have file conflicts between packages. It seems that rsyslog and syslog-ng packages have an exception. Either way, there is nothing DNF can do.

Comment 2 George R. Goffe 2015-07-21 17:22:58 UTC

Radek

The workaround I picked was to remove rsyslogd... there seems to be some small controversy about which one to use. The syntax for config for syslog-ng appears to be superior.

Somehow I got both installed. NOT any more!

George...

Comment 3 Bruno Wolff III 2015-07-24 17:05:15 UTC

It isn't permitted for there just to be file conflicts between two packages as this breaks updates at a point too late to fix the transaction set. If the file conflict is intentional, then the packages should be marked as conflicting in their spec files.

Comment 4 Radek Holy 2015-07-27 12:51:19 UTC

What I understood from the referenced bugs, it seems that the goal is to allow installation of both rsyslog and syslog-ng at the same time. That's why they didn't add the explicit conflicts there, I guess.

Comment 5 Terje Røsten 2015-12-06 15:17:49 UTC

Please see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1269245

Comment 6 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 19:15:13 UTC

Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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