error: File(s) packaged into both ...

[Jeffrey Johnson]

On Nov 11, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Jakub Bogusz <qboosh at pld-linux.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 04:58:01PM +0100, Jacek Konieczny wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Since when is this an error? RPM5?
>> 
>>> error: File(s) packaged into both bacula-console-wx-5.2.12-1.x86_64 and bacula-console-qt4-5.2.12-1.x86_64:
>>>       /usr/share/pixmaps/bacula.png
>> 
>> from:
>> http://buildlogs.pld-linux.org/index.php?dist=th&arch=x86_64&ok=0&name=bacula&id=9c2d1726-4c45-4a22-8b84-2d616936e040&action=tail
>> 
>> It was often very handy to package a file into several packages ??? no
>> need to create a 'common' subpackage every time a few, possibly
>> alternative, sub-packages required the same file.
>> 
>> Is such behaviour an error now? Or have I missed some more serious problem?
> 
> Since RPM5. It's configurable, the default is an error in PLD.
> Probably can be disabled in spec.
> 

Yes.

Note that having a file "replace" another package's content
on same path has been ripped out @rpm5.org.

Never worked well, mostly obscure functionality, and quite
costly to compute are the reasons for the removal.

73 de Jeff