I'm reporting this here because I think 7.0 breaks something that works in earlier versions of RedHat. When I run setup from the word perfect office 2000 for linux, I get the following two error messages (omitting irrelevant stuff): file /etc/init.d from install of fonttastic-glibc-2.1-2000.03.13.12.01-1 conflicts with file from package chkconfig-1.2.16-1 file /etc/init.d from install of fonttastic-glibc-2.1-2000.03.13.12.01-1 conflicts with file from package initscripts-5.49-1 as a result, word perfect's fonttastic font server fails to start properly. sh: /etc/rc.d/init.d/fonttastic: No such file or directory
Exactly what does that package think /etc/init.d should be? It looks like the fontastic thing is a buggy package.
closing, lack of input.
Hi, I am not the reporter, but the problem is with RPM. (ok fonttastic is a buggy package, but it is unlikely that Corel will update it). RPM allows packages to own the same dir. However it does not allow packages to own the same file (for obvious reasons). /etc/init.d is a link to /etc/rc.d/init.d However RPM (or cpio) sees it as a regular file and outputs the conflict. The correct way to handle this would be to make RPM threat symbolic links point to directories as a directory too. This way would allow broken packages (as fonttastic) to install. I am writing this here not to change RPM so that broken packages could be created, but because there are some situations where this behaviour is desired in RPM. A common case is when you change a directory to a symlink to another dir in a new package. Usually the symlink is to keep compatibility with other packages that does not "know" about the new behaviour and looks in the old dir.