On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu> wrote:
> On 20/12/16 12:15, Till Hofmann wrote:
>
>> I have a package that contains a subdirectory which is changed to a
>> symlink in the next release. When I upgrade, I get the following error:
>>
>> Error: Transaction check error:
>>   file /usr/share/symlinktest/dir/subdir from install of
>> symlinktest-1-2.fc25.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
>> symlinktest-1-1.fc25.x86_64
>
>
> Replacing a directory needs special lua scriptlet hackery:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Directory_Replacement
>

I'm not completely sure about this, but I think using Obsoletes in the
successive version is supposed make RPM handle "internal" file
conflicts properly, too.


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