directory conflicts between packages

[Miro Hrončok]

On 24. 03. 23 5:32, Tim Mooney wrote:
> 
> All-
> 
> It seems the rpm 4.16.1.3 that's part of RHEL 9 behaves differently from
> previous versions of RPM with regard to multiple packages that claim the
> same directory.
> 
> This particularly impacts perl modules, where two unrelated perl modules
> may both want to install files into a subdirectory.  For example,
> perl-Test-A and perl-Test-B may not have any dependency relation between
> them, but they may both deliver files into
> 
>      %{perl_sitelib}/Test
> 
> For years, under previous versions of RPM, the recommendation was that
> both packages should claim a directory with %dir.  Based on my reading
> of the Fedora perl packaging guidelines, that's *still* the
> recommendation:
> 
>      https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Perl/#_directory_ownership
> 
> At least on RHEL 9, though, with rpm 4.16.1.3, that's treated as an error:
> 
>      Error: Transaction test error:
>    file /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.32/auto/Test from install of 
> perl-Test-Exception-0.43-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package 
> perl-Test-Pod-1.52-1.x86_64
>    file /usr/local/share/perl5/5.32/Test from install of 
> perl-Test-Exception-0.43-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package 
> perl-Test-Pod-1.52-1.x86_64
> 
> With that error in mind, what's the modern recommendation for packaging
> directories that may be used by multiple unrelated packages?

Are you 100 % sure the path is a directory in both packages? Not a file, not a 
link?

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