On Friday, 08 August 2008, at 19:12:05 (+0200), Jos Vos wrote: > 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. The solution is %pretrans, which a quick Google search on "rpm upgrade symlink directory" turns up right away: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-devel/2007-April/002257.html Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." -- Michael Jordan _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
