Bug 509637
| Summary: | Rpm complains about conflicts with files explicitly excluded with excludepath | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Göran Uddeborg <goeran> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Panu Matilainen <pmatilai> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 11 | CC: | ffesti, jnovy, pmatilai |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 4.7.1-1.fc11 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-08-05 00:41:10 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Easily reproduced, this is a regression between 4.6.x and 4.7.x. Fixed upstream rpm-4.7.1-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rpm-4.7.1-1.fc11 rpm-4.7.1-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update rpm'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-7986 I've tested 4.7.1-1.fc11, and excludepath works again! :-) rpm-4.7.1-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |
Description of problem: If a package to be installed includes files that is already on the system, owned by other packages, and different, it will complain about the conflict. If I wanted the already existing version of the file to remain, I believe I have previously explicitly excluded the file in question with --excludepath. This no longer seems to work. RPM complains about the files even when excluded. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.7.0-1.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: I note this on some non-distribution packages, but to illustrate the problem, you can try to install an old fedora-release package: rpm -U --excludepath /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html --excludepath /usr/share/firstboot/modules/eula.py fedora-release-3.90-2.noarch.rpm Actual results: This still gives the complaint file /usr/share/firstboot/modules/eula.py from install of fedora-release-3.90-2.noarch conflicts with file from package firstboot-1.105-2.fc11.x86_64 and the corresponding error for the index.html file and the fedora-release-notes package. Expected results: With the excludepath arguments, the downgrade should work. (At least as far as file conflicts are concerned. Other dependency issues could likely turn up. I of course don't recommend actually doing this, but it is a simple way to illustrate the problem with a package from a distribution.)