Hello Michel, On 10/29/2012 04:34 AM, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > I'm using the Fedora 17 build of VirtualBox-4.2 on the Fedora 18 > pre-release, and after working for several weeks, now it can no longer > be updated (on an existing installation) or installed (on a freshly > installed and updated system). > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870655 > > In both cases, RPM and yum aborts with file conflicts -- /lib/modules > is owned by both VirtualBox and the filesystem package. > > According to discussion on the Fedora development list, RPM has indeed > become stricter about checking for such conflicts -- different > packages may own the same directory only if they list the directory > with the same owner and permissions (though it's considered bad form, > esp if one of the package is a base package such as filesystem; the > other packages should just take that directory's existence for granted). > > Could this be rectified? You simply need to remove the line > "/lib/modules" from the spec's %files section - it should be safe to > apply this to the specs for all Fedora (and SUSE) releases.
Does changeset 43768[1] look right to you? Regards, Michael [1] https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/43768/vbox -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Michael Thayer Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineering 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:[email protected] Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
