Bug 1056046

I don't get it. Before the above error messages, I do see:

--> Running transaction check
---> Package gnucash.x86_64 0:2.4.13-5.fc20 will be updated
---> Package gnucash.x86_64 0:2.6.0-2.fc20 will be an update
---> Package gnucash-docs.noarch 0:2.4.2-2.fc20 will be updated
---> Package gnucash-docs.noarch 0:2.6.0-1.fc20 will be an update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

So why would it list a file conflict with one getting updated? Could this possibly be a bug in yum, rather than gnucash-docs itself?

Probably relevant to the root problem is that those two files listed are symlinks (to subdirectory gnucash in the same directory). I still don't see why, but that does somewhat explain why these two in particular.

Try updating from 2.4.2-2.fc20

Also, probably relevant to this issue, somehow my other computer has gotten into a weird state such that I see this every time I try to yum reinstall gnucash gnucash-docs:

  Installing : gnucash-2.6.0-2.fc20.x86_64                                  1/2 
warning: %post(gnucash-2.6.0-2.fc20.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package gnucash-2.6.0-2.fc20.x86_64
  Installing : gnucash-docs-2.6.0-1.fc20.noarch                             2/2 
warning: %posttrans(gnucash-2.6.0-2.fc20.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
Non-fatal POSTTRANS scriptlet failure in rpm package gnucash-2.6.0-2.fc20.x86_64

Not good.

Sorry, I didn't mean I don't get what the problem is (after all, "gnucash-docs.noarch 0:2.4.2-2.fc20 will be updated", and then I get the same error messages as your initial report). I meant I don't get why or how it's happening.

Actually, something very strange is going on, I'm getting POSTIN and PREIN errors from just about every package I update.

Regarding the scriptlets, have you caught up from the selinux-policy bug? If you have 3.12.1-116.fc20, you need to do some trickier stuff to get cleaned up from that.
Bug #1054350
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs#RPM_scriptlets_fail_during_updates

Yeah, I figured that out, thanks.

Yet another reason to disable selinux. :-(

> I meant I don't get why or how it's happening.

RPM doesn't support replacing softlinks with directories or vice versa. As a last resort, you could work around it using trigger scriptlets.

$ rpmls -p gnucash-docs-2.4.2-2.fc20.noarch.rpm |grep ^l
lrwxrwxrwx  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-guide
lrwxrwxrwx  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-help
$ rpmls -p gnucash-docs-2.4.2-2.fc20.noarch.rpm |grep ^d
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/doc/gnucash-docs
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash/C
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash/C/figures
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash/de_DE
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash/de_DE/figures
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash/it_IT
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash/it_IT/figures
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash/ja_JP
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash/ja_JP/figures

$ rpmls -p gnucash-docs-2.6.0-1.fc20.noarch.rpm |grep ^l
$ rpmls -p gnucash-docs-2.6.0-1.fc20.noarch.rpm |grep ^d
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/doc/gnucash-docs
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-guide
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-guide/C
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-guide/C/figures
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-guide/de
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-guide/de/figures
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-guide/it
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-guide/it/figures
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-guide/ja
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-guide/ja/figures
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-help
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-help/C
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-help/C/figures
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-help/de
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-help/de/figures
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-help/it
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-help/it/figures

bug 447156 [rpm cannot change directory to symlink (or the other way around)]

gnucash-docs-2.6.0-2.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnucash-docs-2.6.0-2.fc20

I get the file conflicts too, on numerous hosts ...

Transaction check error:
  file /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-guide from install of gnucash-docs-2.6.0-1.fc20.noarch conflicts with file from package gnucash-docs-2.4.2-2.fc20.noarch
  file /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash-help from install of gnucash-docs-2.6.0-1.fc20.noarch conflicts with file from package gnucash-docs-2.4.2-2.fc20.noarch


I already have selinux-policy-3.12.1-117.fc20.noarch installed so that shouldn't be the problem, right?  Or is it because my yum-cron setup tried to update gnucash (and failed) prior to getting the corrected SEL policy?

My workaround has been:

$ sudo yum remove gnucash\*
$ sudo yum install gnucash gnucash-docs

> that shouldn't be the problem, right?

Correct. It's unrelated to the selinux-policy bug. See comment 9.

> Correct. It's unrelated to the selinux-policy bug. See comment 9.

Ok, I skimmed that one too fast.  So this is simply a packaging bug with gnucash.  Thanks for the clarification Michael.

Package gnucash-docs-2.6.0-2.fc20:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing gnucash-docs-2.6.0-2.fc20'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-1332/gnucash-docs-2.6.0-2.fc20
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

gnucash-docs-2.6.0-2.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.