Am Montag, 3. August 2020, 11:28:15 CEST schrieb Thorsten Kukuk:
On Mon, Aug 03, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
Am Montag, 3. August 2020, 10:46:50 CEST schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
Isn't this the historic problem of rpm having been unable to deal with from-symlink and to-symlink changes.. (after all, it is trying to update/replace it with a drwx /home)
..along with the from-dir to-file and vice versa.
Considering, that we all get bitten by it from time to time, question is, why rpm refrains from solving this annoyance?
Because it is not solveable. Assume you have: /usr/lib/app/<scripts>
Now you want to move that to /usr/libexec/app and replace /usr/lib/app with an symlink. What do you do with the content of /usr/lib/app during that time? Especially, if this is coming from different packages, some files got removed in the new package, ...
It even fails with silly situations, where all files/folders are contained in a package, e.g. python's egg-info might be a file or a folder, but rpm didn't manage, if they change their type (at least about a year ago, when this failed for me again). BTW, you're right with /home. Sorry. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org