From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264130AbTDPUmu (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:42:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264584AbTDPUmu (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:42:50 -0400 Received: from mail.hometree.net ([212.34.181.120]:471 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264130AbTDPUms (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:42:48 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: How to identify contents of /lib/modules/* Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:54:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: References: <45B36A38D959B44CB032DA427A6E1064045133AB@cceexc18.americas.cpqcorp.net> <1050508885.28727.137.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1050526480 4440 212.34.181.4 (16 Apr 2003 20:54:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:54:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2003 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox writes: >Only --force allows the same file to be owned by two packages. Otherwise No. Look at this: % rpm -qf /usr/lib/libamanda-2.4.4.so amanda-client-2.4.4-2t amanda-server-2.4.4-2t % rpm -ql amanda-client | grep libamanda /usr/lib/libamanda-2.4.4.so /usr/lib/libamanda.so % rpm -ql amanda-server | grep libamanda /usr/lib/libamanda-2.4.4.so /usr/lib/libamanda.so rpm allows this if both rpms supply an identical file. Which they do (they're cut from the same SRPM). It's not nice but it definitely works without --force. I never use --force on rpm. This is on RedHat 7.3 with rpm-4.0.4-7x.18 Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire