Description of problem: From https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dhcp-4.2.0-6.fc14 bernie - 2010-09-15 00:54:23 package dhcp conflicts with previous version of dhclient without an explicit Conflicts line jpopelka - 2010-09-15 08:57:54 Bernie, can you tell me the N-V-R of the 'previous version of dhclient'. I was trying to update from 4.2.0-1.fc14 and 4.1.1-23.P1.fc13 and see no problem. Can you also show me the exact warning ? bernie - 2010-09-16 07:24:55 I had dhclient-12:4.2.0-1.fc14.x86_64. The problem can be reproduced by upgrading only dhcp without upgrading dhclient as well. Because the packages do not depend on each other, yum will allow this. Actual results: ---> Package dhcp.x86_64 12:4.2.0-6.fc14 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Running Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man5/dhcp-options.5.gz from install of dhcp-12:4.2.0-6.fc14.x86_64 conflicts with file from package dhclient-12:4.2.0-1.fc14.x86_64
dhcp and dhclient packages both ship the same /usr/share/man/man5/dhcp-eval.5.gz and /usr/share/man/man5/dhcp-options.5.gz so when one/both of these man pages is/are changed (by upstream or by me) and the user tries to update *only* dhcp or *only* dhclient (s)he gets the conflict, because the files are not the same. Possibilities: 1) Use Conflicts in spec file: %package -n dhcp +Conflicts: dhclient < %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release} +Conflicts: dhclient > %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release} %package -n dhclient +Conflicts: dhcp < %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release} +Conflicts: dhcp > %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release} Results in: ---> Package dhcp.x86_64 12:4.2.0-8.fc14 set to be updated --> Processing Conflict: 12:dhcp-4.2.0-8.fc14.x86_64 conflicts dhclient < 12:4.2.0-8.fc14 --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: dhcp conflicts with dhclient You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem 2) Ship those man pages in only one of the packages (dhcp/dhclient) Results in: User doesn't find the man page (s)he needs when (s)he has installed only the package without these man pages. 3) Close this as wontfix because when I have both dhcp and dhclient installed I don't have reason to update only one of them when both packages are updated in repositories together. 4) Any other solution ?
(In reply to comment #1) > 4) Any other solution ? dhcp-common sub-package, which contains (among others) both man pages.