[poky] file clashes

[Gary Thomas]

On 03/11/2011 10:35 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I started with my sato-like image which includes gnome-keyring.
> Then I added another application which wanted to use libgnome-keyring.
> This caused this clash at install time (I'm still using opkg):
> * check_data_file_clashes: Package libgnome-keyring0 wants to install file /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0.1.1
> But that file is already provided by package * gnome-keyring
> * check_data_file_clashes: Package libgnome-keyring0 wants to install file /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0
> But that file is already provided by package * gnome-keyring
>
> Does this happen because of the recipe/versions?
> meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/libgnome-keyring_2.32.0.bb
> meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-keyring_2.32.1.bb

This turned out to be my problem - I had pinned gnome-keyring to 2.28.0
which caused the clash.  Removing that pin and all is well.

Perhaps old recipes like that should be removed, certainly if they
cause problems?

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