Thanks gil! Unfortunately this: > %pretrans javadoc -p <lua> > dir = "%{_javadocdir}/%{name}" > dummy = posix.readlink(dir) and os.remove(dir) doesn't work (the old Javadoc directory is not removed). This on its own: > %pre javadoc > [ $1 -gt 1 ] && [ -L %{_javadocdir}/%{name} ] && \ > rm -rf $(readlink -f %{_javadocdir}/%{name}) %{_javadocdir}/%{name} || : doesn't work because rpm still sees a conflict between the old %{name} symlink and the new %{name} directory. Using both together doesn't work either, because the %pretrans scriptlet removes the %{name} symlink, so the %pre scriptlet then doesn't find it (so the readlink would fail anyway). See this message I just posted to the devel list: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-December/193266.html This: %pretrans [ -L %{_javadocdir}/%{name} ] && \ rm -rfv $(readlink -f %{_javadocdir}/%{name}) %{_javadocdir}/%{name} || : kind of works (tested with a bare-bones 'test' package, *not* findbugs-javadoc), although rpm emits a warning because the old %{name}-%{version} directory doesn't exist when it comes to erase it. (It doesn't warn about the files inside the old directory, though - because it doesn't try to erase them in the first place.) Regards, Rich -- Richard Fearn richardfearn@xxxxxxxxx -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel