Description of problem: the rpm can't be uninstalled on F8, and yum thus can't upgrade from avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7 to F8. The old avahi will seem to be installed, and there is no(?) way it can be cleaned up automatically in future upgrades. See #356871 If it is an F7 problem then I suggest that an F7 update is pushed before F8 is finally released... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7 How reproducible: 100% by forcing downgrading of an F8 system. Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -e avahi --nodeps 2. rpm -ihv avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386.rpm --nodeps 3. rpm -e avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7 Actual results: yum upgrade avahi rpm -q avahi avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7 avahi-0.6.21-6.fc8 Expected results: uninstall possible, thus upgrade possible Additional info:
*** Bug 375511 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Note that the fc7 rpm "almost" has been uninstalled during the upgrade to fc8; it is only the script execution that fails. The last traces of fc7 rpm can be removed with rpm -e --noscripts avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7
*** Bug 390921 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I am really not sure why this happens. Apparently ldconfig is returning non-zero when deinstalling this package? If so, you are in serious trouble anyway, and I see no point in hiding this in our postun script. Our postun script basically just calls ldconfig and /sbin/service. The latter is protected via ||: so definitely not the cause of this failure.
Ok, the old version in 0.6.17 of the postun script lacks the ||: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/avahi/avahi.spec?rev=1.80&view=markup And apparently we're doomed, because we cannot replace the old postun scripts of already installed packages.
I am really not sure about this. Apparently the recommended way to fix this is to ask the user to call "rpm -e --noscripts avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7" which totally sucks.
I assume that most/many F7 now has been upgraded to F8 and has this problem. Making an upgrade work is thus not that important - it's too late. But all the machines out there with two avahi's should be cleaned up somehow. Last resort could perhaps be a hack in F9 anaconda... This issue is NEEDINFO from me, but I don't see what info is needed?
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