Message from zypper dup is "Detected 16 file conflicts"

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Hi

This is just an FYI for folk who might not know how to react (like I didn’t know).

I was doing the latest zypper dup in Tumbleweed and after downloading 1400+ files the attempt to install commenced. I got this error:

Detected 16 file conflicts

This was followed by 16 instances like this:

File /usr/src/linux-3.18.3-1-obj/x86_64/desktop/scripts/selinux/mdp/mdp
  from install of
     kernel-desktop-devel-3.18.3-1.3.x86_64(repo-oss)
  conflicts with file from package
     kernel-desktop-devel-3.18.3-1.1.x86_64(@System)

and after the 16 instances there was this final paragraph:

File conflicts happen when two packages attempt to install files with the same name but different contents. If you continue, conflicting files will be replaced losing the previous content.
Continue? [yes/no] (no):

If I answer “no” the process will suspend.
In fact I answered “yes” the 1400+ downloaded updates then installed.

It all seems to be OK.

If there is an alternate response or something else I should do. please let me know.

2

Yes, that was fine.

There was another discussion, probably on the factory mailing list.

It is because the newly installed kernel is actually the same as the previous kernel (just recompiled), so uses the same file names.

3

Thanks
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