Hi, I have a interesting RPM problem that I can't explain (yet). I have a package, say foo-1-1. It contains a directory, say /opt/foo I want to make an update, say foo-1-2, in which /opt/foo is not a directory anymore, but a symlink, say /opt/foo -> bar. Just packaging it as such does not seem to work, as the RPM says then: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /opt/foo: cpio: rename So, I tried a workaround and included in foo no /opt/foo at all, but I included a post-install script: %post ln -snf bar /opt/foo Later, I added some tracing (writing output to a file there) and found out that after at the end of the post-install script the symlink *does* exist. But it is gone when the RPM transaction is finished! Can someone shed a light on this? I'm afraid the actual remove actions for foo-1-1 remove my symlink. The only thing I want to do is replacing a directory with a symlink in an update of the package. How should I do this? This is using RPM 4.4.2 on a RHEL5 clone. Thanks, -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
