Bug 1307

Summary:	--excludedocs doesn't
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	rvokal
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	1999-08-18 18:42:23 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Bill Nottingham 1999-02-23 23:10:04 UTC

[root@bobby:/mnt/redhat/comps/dist/6.0/i386 ]# rpm -i
kernel-2.2.1-6.i386.rpm
error: file /usr/doc/kernel-2.2.1/00-INDEX from install of
kernel-2.2.1-6 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.2.1-2
error: file /usr/doc/kernel-2.2.1/Changes from install of
kernel-2.2.1-6 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.2.1-2
error: file /usr/doc/kernel-2.2.1/Configure.help from
install of kernel-2.2.1-6 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.2.1-2
error: file /usr/doc/kernel-2.2.1/fb/vesafb.txt from install
of kernel-2.2.1-6 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.2.1-2
error: file /usr/doc/kernel-2.2.1/proc.txt from install of
kernel-2.2.1-6 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.2.1-2

[root@bobby:/mnt/redhat/comps/dist/6.0/i386 ]# rpm -i
--excludedocs kernel-2.2.1-6.i386.rpm
error: file /usr/doc/kernel-2.2.1/00-INDEX from install of
kernel-2.2.1-6 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.2.1-2
error: file /usr/doc/kernel-2.2.1/Changes from install of
kernel-2.2.1-6 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.2.1-2
error: file /usr/doc/kernel-2.2.1/Configure.help from
install of kernel-2.2.1-6 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.2.1-2
error: file /usr/doc/kernel-2.2.1/fb/vesafb.txt from install
of kernel-2.2.1-6 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.2.1-2
error: file /usr/doc/kernel-2.2.1/proc.txt from install of
kernel-2.2.1-6 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.2.1-2

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-08-18 18:42:59 UTC

The excluded files will not be installed but will still conflict with
an already installed package.