On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:07:37PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > 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. A %triggerin scriptlet could update the symlinks with every tzdata update. ;) > 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... I think rpm will just remove the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo as the %post script will be executed before the files of the old package are removed. A %posttrans scriptlet could be better. Making the symlink as /usr/share/pgsql/zoneinfo and changing all paths in postgresql accordingly is not an option? -- Miroslav Lichvar -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
