Bug 11203

Summary: big problems with upgrade to XFree86-4.0-0.6.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: Neal D. Becker <nbecker>
Component: XFree86Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Description Neal D. Becker 2000-05-03 17:16:02 UTC 
I encountered big problems trying to upgrade from RH6.2 to XFree86-4.0-0.6.i386.rpm.

There are a number of config directories that are moved from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 to /etc/X11.
The install fails on them. I believe the correct procedure is either rename the old
directory, or mv it to /etc/X11 and put in a symlink.

Each time I tried to update, it ran for a very long time, running a command like

tar cBf - | tar xf -

It seems to have gone insane!! It was tarring my whole hard disk, as far as I can tell.
I killed it after a while (and many warnings about ignoring sockets in places like my
home directory!)

I tried again to do the update with the same results. I did not get the SRPM and
investigate which script was going nuts.
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-05-30 17:59:59 UTC 
The %triggerpostun script was messing up - this should be fixed in more current
versions (starting from 0.8, I think - current is 0.16).