(resending after subscribing to the list) Hi all. The lcgdm packages are using alternatives, as several flavors are provided - mysql, postgresql, ... backends. While trying to provide an upgrade path to some of our users taking legacy packages - as in from other repositories, not fedora - by using obsoletes/provides i've bumped into an issue with the upgrade of the init scripts. The old packages are not using alternatives, so the init.d script is an actual file, not a symlink. While upgrading to the new fedora package (which would obsolete/provide the old ones), the old init.d script is left there, as it's a real file. This breaks the service as the daemon binaries are now (as they should) in /usr/sbin - they used to go in /usr/bin. Debian seems to provide an option for these cases: # man update-alternatives """ If some real file is installed where an alternative link has to be installed, it is kept unless --force is used. """ but i can't find anything similar in Fedora. Is there a solution other than documenting that people should remove the old package and install the new one in two steps? Thanks in advance, Ricardo -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
