On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 13:52, Jerry A! wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:54:02PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > : On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 07:04, Jerry A! wrote: > : > I'm using a 9.1 system. I'm trying to install the "mplayerplugin" rpm. > : > However, everytime I go to install, it complains about a conflict with > : > the "mozplugger" package. > : > > : > Hey, I've got my config files setup so that the two can co-exist. So, > : > looking at the man page I see that I can pass the rpm options of > : > "--force" and "--nodeps" by using the "--allow-force" and > : > "--allow-nodeps" of urpmi. > : > > : > "urpmi --allow-force --allow-nodeps mozplayerplugin" still wants to > : > remove the mozplugger package. > : > > : > Is the man page wrong, urpmi broken or am I doing something wrong? > : > > : > --Jerry > : > : Your not doing something wrong.. the conflict is apparently coded into > : the mplayer and mozplugger rpms. Usually this is done because they > : share a filename... but not content. It's possible you could download > : the smaller of the two src rpms. Then edit the spec file for it and > : install that way. I've got mplayer on my box and I'm not missing > : mozplugger myself... but that's just me. > > The conflict comes from the fact that both the default setups for > mozplugger and mplayerplugin control the various video/* mime-types. > > Regardless, I can download either of the two rpms and install it via > "rpm --nodeps <rpm>" and everything is all cool. > > I'm curious as to why "--allow-force/nodeps" isn't being passed to rpm > by urpmi. > > --Jerry
It's my understanding that when a Conflicts parameter is set in the rpm spec file it overides the force / nodeps. Doing this you could theoretically do a conflicts between say KDE and Gnome and you would only be "able" to install one. I'll have to check out MaximumRPM to verify my info is current but AFAIK I am. James
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