Bug 1677540

Summary: post-install script fails to link manpages to /etc/alternatives
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Lumír Balhar <lbalhar>
Component: fakerootAssignee: Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 31CC: Axel.Thimm, dominik, ekulik, jpazdziora, lkundrak, moceap, wtogami
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Fixed In Version: fakeroot-1.24-2.fc31 fakeroot-1.24-2.fc30 fakeroot-1.24-2.fc29 fakeroot-1.24-2.el7 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Description Lumír Balhar 2019-02-15 08:01:59 UTC 
Description of problem:
Post install scriplet cannot create symlinks and therefore shows errors like this:
failed to link /usr/share/man/de/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.de.1.gz: No such file or directory

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fakeroot-1.23-3.fc30

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf install fakeroot
2. see errors in output

Actual results:
# dnf install fakeroot

...

Running scriptlet: fakeroot-1.23-3.fc30.x86_64
failed to link /usr/share/man/de/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.de.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/de/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.de.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/es/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.es.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/es/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.es.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/fr/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.fr.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/fr/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.fr.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/nl/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.nl.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/nl/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.nl.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/pt/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.pt.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/pt/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.pt.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/sv/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.sv.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/sv/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.sv.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/de/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.de.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/de/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.de.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/es/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.es.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/es/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.es.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/fr/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.fr.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/fr/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.fr.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/nl/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.nl.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/nl/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.nl.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/pt/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.pt.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/pt/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.pt.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/sv/man1/faked.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/faked.sv.1.gz: No such file or directory
failed to link /usr/share/man/sv/man1/fakeroot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/fakeroot.sv.1.gz: No such file or directory
warning: %post(fakeroot-1.23-3.fc30.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 2

Error in POSTIN scriptlet in rpm package fakeroot
  Verifying        : fakeroot-1.23-3.fc30.x86_64
  Verifying        : fakeroot-libs-1.23-3.fc30.x86_64

Expected results:
no errors
Comment 1 ekulik 2019-07-28 19:07:14 UTC 
I have reason to believe that this is causing failures in my Kickstart installations with --excludedocs.
Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 18:53:43 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to 31.
Comment 3 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2019-09-24 13:52:11 UTC 
*** Bug 1754943 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2019-09-24 13:58:26 UTC 
*** Bug 1696723 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2019-09-24 13:58:56 UTC 
Same issue in all releases, I have a fix in the works.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2019-09-26 11:45:14 UTC 
FEDORA-2019-0b2a41480a has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-0b2a41480a
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2019-09-26 11:45:19 UTC 
FEDORA-2019-7bb146dea7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-7bb146dea7
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2019-09-26 11:45:20 UTC 
FEDORA-2019-f7dd8d9ee0 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 31. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-f7dd8d9ee0
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2019-09-27 02:18:54 UTC 
fakeroot-1.24-2.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-0b2a41480a
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2019-09-27 02:29:00 UTC 
fakeroot-1.24-2.fc31 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-f7dd8d9ee0
Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2019-09-27 02:43:10 UTC 
fakeroot-1.24-2.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-63383aac9d
Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2019-09-27 03:13:33 UTC 
fakeroot-1.24-2.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-7bb146dea7
Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2019-09-28 00:03:02 UTC 
fakeroot-1.24-2.fc31 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2019-10-04 21:24:12 UTC 
fakeroot-1.24-2.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2019-10-04 21:56:45 UTC 
fakeroot-1.24-2.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2019-10-12 01:36:51 UTC 
fakeroot-1.24-2.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.