Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1555 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 05:04:00PM +0200, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:50:25AM -0400, Dan Goodman wrote:
> > I regularly patch my 11.1 o/s via "zypper ref -b" followed by "zypper up".
> >
> > Usually everything goes fine. However, last night tomcat6 was one of the
> > proposed upgrades, and it failed.
> >
> > This morning I repeated my usual procedure, and only tomcat6 was proposed.
> >
> > When it ran, it failed with the message below.
> >
> > Any ideas about how to proceed (info to gather, is it a config problem
> > on my end, etc.)?
>
> The update is broken, it tries to replace a directory with a symlink.
> Unfortunately that's an operation that rpm doesn't support.
>
> zypper rm tomcat6
> zypper in tomcat6
>
> should do the trick. (But save your tomcat configuration changes
> first.)

Sorry, bad advice. That deletes too many packages. It should read

    rpm -e --nodeps tomcat6
    zypper in tomcat6

Cheers,
  Michael.

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