On 01 Feb 2014, at 4:24 PM, Jeff Trawick <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't understand that... > > I guess the reasons that these particular RPMs are "system libraries" are: > > * they use the same package names as the normal APR packages for > RHEL/Fedora-based systems > * (unless some special effort is made) they install to the same location as > the nomral APR packages > > With a different package name and prefix (not unheard of with APR) they are > not system libraries.
That's correct. The idea is that they are drop in replacements for the system libraries. RPM has built in features to ensure that the right libraries match up, and that conflicting packages fail to install. In this case though someone had overridden APR with a private copy on their LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and RPM can't help with that. The solution was to remove the competing copy. Regards, Graham --
