Bug 832692

How are you trying to update vim ? You need to update vim-enhanced and vim-minimal with the same transaction like 

'rpm -Uvh vim-enhanced-7.3.515-2.fc16.x86_64.rpm vim-minimal-7.3.515-2.fc16.x86_64.rpm' or
'yum update vim-enhanced vim-minimal'

Something like
'rpm -Uvh vim-enhanced-7.3.515-2.fc16.x86_64.rpm
 rpm -Uvh vim-minimal-7.3.515-2.fc16.x86_64.rpm'
won't work.

I'm asking because vim-minimal doesn't have /usr/bin/ex:

>rpm -qpl vim-enhanced-7.3.515-2.fc16.x86_64.rpm | grep ex
/usr/bin/ex

>rpm -qpl vim-minimal-7.3.515-2.fc16.x86_64.rpm  | grep ex
/bin/ex

The original instance came from a general "yum update" so yes, single transaction.  Those conditions no longer exist now, as I removed vim-enhanced to let the rest of the update proceed.

Now vim-enhanced cannot be installed:

================================================================================
 Package             Arch          Version                 Repository      Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 vim-enhanced        x86_64        2:7.3.515-2.fc16        updates        949 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total size: 949 k
Installed size: 2.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Check
Running Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/bin/ex from install of vim-enhanced-2:7.3.515-2.fc16.x86_64 conflicts with file from package vim-minimal-2:7.3.515-2.fc16.x86_64


It's interesting, vim-minimal has ex as /bin/ex, yet the conflict complaint is about /usr/bin/ex???

[mats@milou ~]$ rpm -q vim-minimal
vim-minimal-7.3.515-2.fc16.x86_64
[mats@milou ~]$ rpm -ql vim-minimal
/bin/ex
/bin/rvi
/bin/rview
/bin/vi
/bin/view
/etc/virc

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