Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:15:06PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> [tgl@rh2 x86_64]$ sudo rpm -F postgresql-8.2.4-4.x86_64.rpm postgresql-serv... >> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/pgsql/timezone: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory > It's an old bug in rpm, can't find it in bugzilla atm. The workaround > is to symlink everything in the directory, not sure how stable is the > content of /usr/share/zoneinfo though. I've done this in ncurses > package. Egad, that seems pretty horrid. They do change the list of zones and zone aliases now and then. An idea that just came to me is to ship the rpm containing a single empty directory at /usr/share/pgsql/timezone (I assume RPM can handle removing the contents...) and then have a postinstall scriptlet that rmdir's the directory and creates the symlink instead. This would leave the RPM manifest correctly showing ownership of one file there, but it would be a symlink not an empty directory. Can anyone state whether RPM tracks file types closely enough to notice this? I really have no idea what level of detail is in its database... regards, tom lane -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
