Bug 17895

Summary:	links mishaps cause faulty update
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Michal Jaegermann <michal>
Component:	Xaw3d	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2000-09-26 21:56:39 UTC

In Xaw3d-devel-1.3-21 /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xaw3d was a link to
../Xaw3d and the later the real directory.  For Xaw3d-devel-1.5-7
this is another way around.  Running an update without deleting
links in a preinstall script is causing a creation of circular
references and a silent update failure. An attempt to
'cd /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xaw3d' will fail with "Too many levels of
symbolic links".

As rpm database registers as installed a new package and all its files
fixing that requires a removal of faulty links and 'rpm --force ...'
this again.

  Michal
  michal

Comment 1 Ngo Than 2000-10-11 11:33:20 UTC

This problem is fixed in Xaw3d-1.5-8.