Bug 696806

Summary:	Cannot upgrade moodle: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/www/moodle/web/auth/cas: cpio: rename
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Todd Zullinger <tmz>
Component:	moodle	Assignee:	Gwyn Ciesla <gwync>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	el5	CC:	gwync, me, tmz
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Description Todd Zullinger 2011-04-14 21:31:42 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #628424 +++

Description of problem:

yum upgrade of Moodle fails for version 1.9.9-2

Running Transaction
etckeeper: pre transaction commit
  Updating       : moodle-1.9.9-2.fc13.noarch                               1/2
Error unpacking rpm package moodle-1.9.9-2.fc13.noarch
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/www/moodle/web/auth/cas: cpio: rename

--- Additional comment from abu_hurayrah on 2010-08-29 22:50:43 EDT ---

Note, on another system that had this problem, uninstalling and reinstalling Moodle works fine, so it appears to be an upgrade-specific problem.

--- Additional comment from tmz on 2010-09-20 20:06:34 EDT ---

I think this is a nasty problem.  It affects the EPEL packages as well, it would seem:

$ sudo yum update moodle
...
Error unpacking rpm package moodle-1.8.13-2.el5.noarch
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/www/moodle/web/auth/cas: cpio: rename

Failed:
  moodle.noarch 0:1.8.13-2.el5

$ rpm -qf /var/www/moodle/web/auth/cas
moodle-1.8.12-1.el5.noarch

$ file /var/www/moodle/web/auth/cas
/var/www/moodle/web/auth/cas: directory

$ rpm -qplv moodle-1.8.13-2.el5.noarch.rpm | grep /var/www/moodle/web/auth/cas
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root    root               16 Aug 20 08:40 /var/www/moodle/web/auth/cas -> /usr/share/pear/

Happy to file a seperate EPEL bug if desired.  But the issue is the same, replacing a directory with a symlink is a painful process with rpm.

--- Additional comment from tmz on 2010-09-20 20:14:16 EDT ---

*** Bug 631998 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

--- Additional comment from limb on 2010-10-04 10:26:20 EDT ---

Sorry for the delay.  It was a one-character typo.  If the rawhide build works for you, I'll push the fix everywhere.

--- Additional comment from updates on 2010-10-12 11:49:04 EDT ---

moodle-1.8.13-3.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/moodle-1.8.13-3.el5

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Sorry to re-open an old problem, but I finally had time to test updating on EL-5 and found this bug is still present there.  Any suggestions other than uninstall and reinstall?