Description of problem: When two packages attempt to install the same file, yum detects that a file collision has occurred and exits. I think that the desired behavior should be that it reports the problem, perhaps in a log file, and continues on with everything else that it can do. Otherwise, one has to redownload many many many files. Alternatively, if yum supported the --replacefiles switch as rpm does, that would resolve the problem for me Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum 2.6.0 How reproducible: Reliably Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum -y update wxGTK 2. yum -y update --replacefiles wxGTK ought to work, but the --replacefiles switch isn't accepted. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: The underlying problem that triggers the error is described in bug 188370.
Created attachment 133674 [details] This is a screen capture of a typical session which reproduces the problem
The removal+redownload bit should be fixed now. But there's no way to "avoid" the conflict -- it has to be handled by the user (or broken repositories should be fixed, even better)