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#216 Installing apptainer while singularity is installed is causing transaction check conflict errors
Closed: Duplicate by carlwgeorge. Opened by dwd.

Closed: Duplicate
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After the change required by #215, where the Obsoletes: singularity was moved to apptainer-suid and the Provides: singularity was removed, now when someone does 'yum install apptainer' on a system where singularity is already installed it attempts to do the install of apptainer without removing singularity. It gets a bunch of errors beginning like

Transaction check error:
  file /usr/bin/run-singularity from install of apptainer-1.1.4-2.el7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package singularity-3.8.7-1.x86_64
  file /usr/bin/singularity from install of apptainer-1.1.4-2.el7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package singularity-3.8.7-1.x86_64
  file /usr/share/man/man1/singularity-build.1.gz from install of apptainer-1.1.4-2.el7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package singularity-3.8.7-1.x86_64
...

What should I do? Put an Obsoletes: singularity on both apptainer and and apptainer-suid? A fix should be rushed.

Putting it on both does seem to solve the problem.

Migrated to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2158332.

Metadata Update from @carlwgeorge:
- Issue close_status updated to: Duplicate
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

This issue has been migrated to Fedora Forge:
https://forge.fedoraproject.org/epel/steering/issues/216

Please continue any further discussion there.
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