triggers could be used too (to rm -fr the directory installed by old versions
of the package)
Another *be careful* warning for this one too.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Panu Matilainen" <pmati...@laiskiainen.org>
To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 4:17:27 AM
Subject: Re: replacing folders with symlinks leads to rpm cpio rename errors
On 09/21/2012 10:27 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 09/21/2012 09:22 AM, Julian Sikorski wrote:
>> W dniu 21.09.2012 08:53, Julian Sikorski pisze:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> one of the updates I am preparing is supposed to replace some of the
>>> folders with symlinks. Unfortunately, this leads to rpm cpio: rename
>>> errors upon an update attempt. Is there a standard way of dealing
>>> with this?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Julian
>>>
>> It seems to have gone through upon the second attempt. Odd.
>
> Was the directory empty before installing the rpm replacing the
> directory with a symlink?
>
> I could be wrong, but IIRC, current rpm is only able to handle
> dir->symlink replacers when "dir"s are empty.
A directory (empty or not) can't be automatically replaced by anything
else (symlink or otherwise) in the existing rpm versions. If absolutely
necessary, it can be accomplished by doing the necessary renames and
symlinks in "%pretrans -p <lua>" scriptlet, but that should be only seen
as the last resort as its not exactly a safe operation.
- Panu -
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