Description of problem: Upgrade from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 beta fails for grace. rpm upgrade gives: Updating : grace ################### [ 892/3316] Error unpacking rpm package grace - 5.1.21-9.fc9.i386 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1: cpio: rename and after that grace cannot find any fonts. If I remove grace and reinstall it, it works OK. So only the upgrade seems to be broken. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I think this is because /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1 is not a directory anymore but a link to the /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 directory, to avoid using the duplicated fonts in grace, but instead use the system fonts. I remember this happening for other packages in the past, but I thought it was fixed. Anyway this is not a grace bug, in my opinion, but a rpm bug.
according to wwoods this is a packaging bug and not something rpm can handle.
It's a known limitation of RPM/cpio. See bug 433096 for a nice long discussion of the same problem with the xulrunner package. Panu comments there: "The trick to replace directory with a symlink is to do it in %pretrans, regular %pre is too late in the process." Until rpm can be made to handle this change automatically (and it's much too late in the F9 process for that), it's a packaging bug.
If you read up to bottom, it looks like things are not so simple, and I didn't understood the final words. Clearer explanation and patches welcomed.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Use LUA or have a look how xorg-x11-filesystem solves such issues. It is possible to work without that "feature"...
I will certainly not add a unusefull package to workaround a rpm bug. How lua can be used for that issue?
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Now that F-9 is getting near EOL I will close this bug as WONTFIX. The upgrade process works OK for F-10, F-11 and rawhide. I have at the moment more important bugs to solve like grace not running on x86-32. If there is a patch I will take it in any case. Thanks.