Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

rarian-compat-0.6.0-3.fc8.i386.rpm

How reproducible:

clean install using updated rpms

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -r "$r" --initdb
2. rpm -r "$r" -i $long_list_of_rpms_containing_rarian_compat

  
Actual results:
add command failed
could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving
add command failed
could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving
error: %post(rarian-compat-0.6.0-3.fc8.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 2


Expected results:
<successful install>

Additional info:
The 'Steps to Reproduce' section is of course a very simplified version of what
we do, when installing from scratch.