Bug 990538

Summary:	file changed to symlink
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Juran <djuran>
Component:	thermostat	Assignee:	Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	jerboaa, jon.vanalten, omajid, sgehwolf
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Description David Juran 2013-07-31 12:17:02 UTC

Description of problem:
Updating from Fedora 17 with thermostat-0.3-1.fc17 to Fedora 19 with thermostat thermostat-0.9.2-4.fc19 fails since /usr/share/thermostat/agent/run (and a few other) changed from being a file to a symlink. These kind of changes aren't handled very well by rpm but need to be cleaned up manually.



How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install thermostat-0.3-1.fc17
2. yum update to latest F19 version
3.



Additional info:
The issue is similar in nature to Bug 976420

Comment 1 Severin Gehwolf 2013-07-31 18:16:44 UTC

Thanks for the bug report. At this point we can't really support dist-upgrades. The best you can do is (this will mean potential data loss):

sudo yum remove thermostat
rpm -qf /usr/share/thermostat (should not be owned by any package)
sudo yum remove /usr/share/thermostat.

Sorry about this, but we can't do much about this since upstream is still very much in flux too. In all fairness, upgrades from Fedora's where version # < latest - 1 is more than experimental terrain :)