[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: identify file conflict type in error messages (Issue #2365)

[Panu Matilainen]

Historically rpm only had one type of file conflicts, based on file digest effectively. For years now, we've identified multiple types of different conflicts:
- permissions
- file type
- content
- replacement conflict (eg a directory cannot be replaced by something else)
- self-conflict (a special case of replacement conflict)

For all these, we only issue a very generic "file /some/where conflicts between x and y"  error message, and diagnosing the cause requires somebody with a fair amount of rpm knowledge to look at 'rpm -qlv' of both conflicting packages. We need to do a better job of explaining these conflicts. Rpm knows exactly why it fails, so it should communicate it to the user. 

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