Strange behaviour for conflic file

[Panu Matilainen]

On 10/10/2014 11:48 AM, jupiter wrote:
> On 10/10/14, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> wrote:
>> On 10/09/2014 05:39 PM, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:54 PM, jupiter <jupiter.hce at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:jupiter.hce at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      Hi,
>>>
>>>      I built my own RPM packages which contain top menu hce.menu for
>>> CentOS
>>>      6.5, but I am baffled by following conflict file error:
>>>
>>>      $ sudo yum install hce_graphics
>>>
>>>      Transaction Check Error:
>>>         file /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/hce.menu from install of
>>>      hce_graphics-1.3.18-4.0.7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
>>>      hce_g1-4.1-4.0.8.x86_64
>>>
>>>      Both hce.menu file are exactly identical:
>>>
>>>      $ md5sum /usr/local/hce_graphics/menu/hce.menu
>>>      bb4a1d5b7fa3dc0da292239cbedf096d
>>>
>>>      $ md5sum /usr/local/hce_g1/menu/hce.menu
>>>      bb4a1d5b7fa3dc0da292239cbedf096d
>>>
>>>      How does the yum check the conflict file?
>>>
>>>      Appreciate your advice.
>>>
>>>      Thank you.
>>>
>>>      Kind regards,
>>>
>>>      - jupi
>>>
>>>
>>> It is rpm there is complaining here, only one installed package can
>>> owned the same file.
>>
>> Nope, its always been possible to share identical files between
>> packages. Identical means more than just content, mode and ownership
>> need to match as well.
>
> Correct, I did get it work before. How to debug it? The same owneship
> root, the same content verified by md5sum and the same mode, that
> borthers me.

Well you're talking about three different files here:

/etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/hce.menu
/usr/local/hce_graphics/menu/hce.menu
/usr/local/hce_g1/menu/hce.menu

Its the one in /etc that conflicts, but you dont provide any info about 
what it is. If its a symlink to the other files, different in each 
package, then that would be another possible cause of the conflict.

How to debug it is simply: look carefully!

	- Panu -