RedHat RPM file collision Let's assume I have two RPM packages named _1.rpm_ and _2.rpm_. Both of them want to put a file _test_ into _/usr/bin_ , but both of them use a different version of _test_. Of course I would like to have both RPMs installed on the same machine. What would be official behavior of RedHat (let it be RHEL5) in described situation?

Assuming these are home-brewed RPMs, rewrite your `spec` files to install the executables under a versioned name, say `test-1.2` and `test-2.1`, and use the `update-alternatives(8)` system to configure one of them for system-wide usage.

This is the policy followed by RHEL for the `java` executables, for example.