Re: Help with update issue

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On 10/07/2010 02:52 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> In paraview 3.8.0, %{_libdir}/paraview/paraview is a directory:
>
> ls -l /usr/lib64/paraview/paraview
> total 660
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root   4213 Aug  2 15:35 benchmark.py
> -rw-r--r--. 2 root root   4202 Aug  2 16:20 benchmark.pyc
> -rw-r--r--. 2 root root   4202 Aug  2 16:20 benchmark.pyo
> ....
>
> In paraview 3.8.1, it is a file.
>
> It fails to upgrade with:
>
> Error unpacking rpm package paraview-3.8.1-2.fc14.x86_64
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib64/paraview/paraview: cpio:
> rename
> paraview-3.8.0-4.fc14.x86_64 was supposed to be removed but is not!
>
> Anything I can do to fix?
>
>

Would this be acceptable?

#Handle changing from directory to file
%triggerin -- paraview <= 3.8.0
rm -rf %{_libdir}/paraview/paraview

Is there a place in the wiki where possible packaging tips like this are kept? 
  Should this be on such a page? 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging_tricks ?

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