On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 16:43 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:28:54AM -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > > This is with yum-3.2.11-1.fc9.noarch and rawhide. Look how it says it > > > updated xulrunner when it really didn't. Is skip-broken to blame? > > > > > > Updating : xulrunner ######################### [1/2] > > > Error unpacking rpm package > > > xulrunner-1.9-0.beta3.22.nightly20080215.fc9.i386 > > > error: unpacking of archive failed on > > > file /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9pre/dictionaries: cpio: rename > > > Unable to send message to PackageKit > > Yah what a fun time. So, unless I'm mistaken, rpm is failing to handle > > something in the installation of that package and it is not reporting it > > as fatal to the transaction. We have this problem, often, with > > scriptlets aborting in %post. > > I probably should have pointed this out, but I know what the specific > problem is -- in the old package, /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9pre/dictionaries is > a directory, and in the new one it's a symlink. There's some sort of > longstanding RPM bug in this case. > > If you look in the middle of all of the output I sent, deleting the > problematic directory with rm -rf before running yum causes everything to > work as it should. > > So, yeah, while the underlying bug is concerning, I'm, for the purposes of > this mailing list, mostly worried that yum appeared to think that the > upgrade succeeded when really it failed. > yes, rpm gives us no way of knowing otherwise in the python layer, -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
