Richard Fearn (richardfearn@xxxxxxxxx) said: > On 28 December 2013 16:43, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#The_.25pretrans_scriptlet > > Notes that you need to use lua in pretrans scriptlets, not shell commands. > > Thanks. I've already seen that. It doesn't seem to make any difference > whether it's a bash scriptlet or a lua scriptlet, though; irrespective > of what language is used to delete the symlink, the problem still > occurs. > > > I haven't found an example for you to copy, but note there are still some > > cases where changing symlinks to directories or vise versa won't work with > > rpm (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975909). > > I think deleting the symlink manually may be revealing a problem in > rpm. It seems to treat /usr/share/javadoc/test-1/ > hello (from the old > package) and /usr/share/javadoc/test/hello (from the new package) as > the same thing. Since the new package is installing > /usr/share/javadoc/test/hello, it therefore decides to 'skip' the old > 'hello' file, rather than 'erase' it. > > I'm not sure yet why these two paths are considered to be the same... I believe (but can't confirm ATM) that file disposition checks (i.e., which files are added/removed/replaced) happen before pretrans scripts. So if you're using pretrans scripts to change paths that were valid pre-transaction to something else, weird results may happen. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
