Description of problem: file conflict between kde-i18n-Arabic-3.5.10-1.fc9.noarch and kde-l10n-Arabic-4.0.3-4.fc9.noarch Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kde-i18n-Arabic-3.5.10-1.fc9 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.try to install kde-i18n-Arabic with kde-l10n-Arabic installed -or-try to install kde-l10n-Arabic with kde-i18n-Arabic installed Actual results: error : file conflict for the file : /usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/kcmlilo.mo Expected results: package install Additional info: I got the error trying to install a fedora unity's respin on testing purpose.
I'm afraid there isn't much we can do about this. The Arabic KDE translation team wasn't able to keep their translation up to date and complete for KDE 4.1, so it was dropped, and so we can't update it anymore, and in particular we can't fix it to produce no conflicts with our updated kde-i18n packages. Maybe it would be best to just exclude the dead kde-l10n-Arabic (and all the other kde-l10n-* stuff which has no 4.1.x version available, this affects a few other languages) from the respins? Putting an exclude=kde-l10n-* on the Everything repo (i.e. only allowing kde-l10n-* stuff from updates) should work. It's too bad such a commonly-spoken language as Arabic doesn't have a more active translation team at upstream KDE.
*** Bug 465716 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 319511 [details] yum install of the conflicting packages Unable to reproduce on an updated fedora 9 station, log attached
(In reply to comment #1) > I'm afraid there isn't much we can do about this. The Arabic KDE translation > team wasn't able to keep their translation up to date and complete for KDE 4.1, > so it was dropped, and so we can't update it anymore, and in particular we > can't fix it to produce no conflicts with our updated kde-i18n packages. > Besides the upstream Arabic KDE translation issue, can you update the package so that it doesn't conflict anymore? Either one could obsolete the other, one could no longer provide the conflicting file, ... ?
All the kde-l10n-* packages are built from a single SRPM which expects a single version to build, not some 4.1 and some 4.0 stuff.
See http://i18n.kde.org/stats/gui/stable-kde4/team/ar/ for the sad state of affairs the Arabic translation is in for KDE 4.1.
Again I recognize there is trouble upstream but that doesn't justify deferring a packaging issue on our side, IMHO.
kde-l10n-Arabic comes from an old SRPM, it can't be built from the current one because upstream dropped it from their current releases. The only safe thing to do is to uninstall it, resp. to exclude it from respins. The package is to effectively consider dropped.
The ONLY way you can get this fixed is by getting a team of Arabic translators to work on the upstream translations so they can get reincluded in a later release (but it's too late for 4.1.3 already and there probably won't be another release before 4.2.0).
If there's no upgrade path, then the old, now awol pkg needs to be EOL'd and Obsoletes'd somewhere (kdelibs?). In the meantime, kcmlilo.mo can/should be omitted from kde-i18n anyway, (it's not used anywhere... or is it?)
Since this is an upstream issue which is not and may not be addressed any time in the foreseeable future, going to close this as WONTFIX