[Solved]: yum/rpm upgrade problem with fortune rpm from dries

Andrey Andreev wrote:

Hi,

I tried to do yum update today, and I got:

[update: fortune 1.0-30.1.fc2.dries.i386]
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages
Download start for fortune.i386
Checking cached RPM fortune-1.0-30.1.fc2.dries.i386.rpm
Creating Transaction Set
Updating: fortune, i386
Running test transaction:
Test transaction complete, Success!
Updating: fortune, i386
fortune 100 % done 1/3
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/games/fortune: cpio: rename
Updated:  fortune 1.0-30.1.fc2.dries.i386
Transaction(s) Complete

Note the message:
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/games/fortune: cpio: rename

[snip]

[current installed package info]
8<-------------------------------------------------------->8
[andrei@brie backuprpms]$ rpm -qi fortune

[snip]

GZDIO: 3 reads, 24576 total bytes in 0.000477 secs
########################################### [100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/games/fortune: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory

[snip]

Well, sorry! I should read my own posts more carefully in the future, before posting them. It was all in there, really.

So, as the last mesage clearly states, /usr/games/fortune is a directory (full of other stuff too), while in the new package it is a file, and the corresponding directory is /usr/share/games/fortune

So, its a packaging SNAFU. I guess I'll let dries know.

Sorry to have wasted your time.

//Andro

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Andrey Andreev
University of Helsinki
Dept. of Computer Science