RPM dependencies kicking my a**

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> writes:

> Transaction Check Error:
> file /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51
> conflicts between attempted installs of
> ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.34.20070204.lvn6 and
> libavcodec51-0.4.9-19_r7407.fc6.at
>
> About 8 files conflict between these two packages.  Both packages have
> enough dependencies that I can't just tell it not to install one or the
> other.  Clearly the problem is the feud between atrpms and livna.  But
> atrpms is where MythTV is coming from and livna chock full of packages
> that are currently on my system, so I can't just disable one.
>
> What should I do?  For now, I'm disabling livna, and removing
> conflicting packages so the atrpms versions will get installed, but I
> don't have a good enough feel for the "culture and mythology" of each
> repo to know if that's a good idea or not.

Choose between Livna and ATRpms.  They don't happily co-exist..

> Thanks.

-derek

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