Bug 1970919

Summary: mdoc.7.gz conflicts with file from package man-pages
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Javier Peña <jpena>
Component: mandocAssignee: David Shea <reallylongword>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Javier Peña 2021-06-11 13:15:57 UTC
Description of problem:
Trying to install mandoc-1.14.5-13.el7.x86_64 on a CentOS 7 system where the man-pages package is already installed gives us the following error:

Transaction check error:
  file /usr/share/man/man7/mdoc.7.gz from install of mandoc-1.14.5-13.el7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package man-pages-3.53-5.el7.noarch


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mandoc-1.14.5-13.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start on a CentOS 7 VM (not container)
2. yum install -y man-pages
3. yum install -y epel-release
4. yum install -y mandoc

Actual results:
Installation fails with a file conflict

Expected results:
Installation should succeed

Additional info:
I think the issue could have been re-introduced by [1]. There was a previous bz with the same subject [2].

[1] - https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mandoc/c/1bda8b51bc32a32459e7ed6120105401c1b7e2af?branch=rawhide
[2] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1691793

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2021-06-28 19:38:46 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2021-d90f897c67 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2021-d90f897c67

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2021-06-29 01:28:41 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2021-d90f897c67 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2021-d90f897c67

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2021-07-14 01:30:16 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2021-d90f897c67 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.