Bug 61413

Summary:	RFE: Can't replace a directory with a symlink
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	mitr, than
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	61131, 73500, 79579, 100644

Description Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-03-19 10:55:23 UTC

Description of Problem: 
rpm can't replace a directory with a symlink. 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
4.0.4-7x.5 
 
How Reproducible: 
100% 
 
Steps to Reproduce: 
1. Build an rpm with a directory in it; install it 
2. Update the rpm, replacing the directory with a symlink 
3. Try to upgrade to the new rpm 
 
Actual Results: 
Error messages, failed upgrade 
 
Expected Results: 
New rpm is installed 
 
Additional Information: 
I know it's always been that way; filing a bug report in the hopes of getting it on the 
feature list for one of the next versions. 
 
This issue blocks fixing some other bugs.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-07-20 18:55:19 UTC

*** Bug 3979 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Paul Nasrat 2005-09-29 18:14:56 UTC

We're not looking at doing this anytime soon.  If you want this persued probably
best forum is rpm-devel list

https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/rpm-devel