On 3/26/2010 12:15 PM, John BORIS wrote:
> Okay I think I got things a bit screwed up and I am trying to clear
> things out and start over. I installed the epel repository but now I get
> this when I try to do a
> yum install BackupPC
>
> Transaction Check Error:
>    file /etc/BackupPC/config.pl from install of
> BackupPC-3.1.0-5.el5.noarch conflicts with file from package
> backuppc_community-3.2.0beta0-1.rhel5.noarch
>    file /etc/BackupPC/hosts from install of BackupPC-3.1.0-5.el5.noarch
> conflicts with file from package
> backuppc_community-3.2.0beta0-1.rhel5.noarch
>    file /etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf from install of
> BackupPC-3.1.0-5.el5.noarch conflicts with file from package
> backuppc_community-3.2.0beta0-1.rhel5.noarch
>    file /etc/rc.d/init.d/backuppc from install of
> BackupPC-3.1.0-5.el5.noarch conflicts with file from package
> backuppc_community-3.2.0beta0-1.rhel5.noarch
>
> Where does yum keep this stuff. I did a
>
> yum remove BackupPC
>
> and it "seemed" to remove the stuff from my attempt to install the Beta
> copy. Somewhere it has this stuff in a file but I have searched the
> system and can't find any remnants of the failed attempts.
>
> Sorry to be a blockhead on this.

Yum doesn't track things directly - it is mostly a wrapper around rpm 
that handles the listed dependencies for you.  I'd try a 'yum remove 
backuppc_community' first, then re-install whichever version you want. 
I didn't realize you had a packaged version already.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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