Description of problem: Cannot install latest thunderbird rpm. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): thunderbird-2.0.0.14-1.fc9.i386.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download the thunderbird rpm (or use yum etc) 2. Attempt to install it Actual results: [root@jumbovaio Desktop]# rpm -Uvh thunderbird-2.0.0.14-1.fc9.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:thunderbird ########################################### [100%] error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.14/ dictionaries: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory Expected results: Thunderbird is successfully installed Additional info:
What version were you upgrading from?
[root@jumbovaio Desktop]# rpm -qa | grep thunderbird thunderbird-2.0.0.14-1.fc8.i386 Hmm ... I suspect that the preupgrade process to move from fedora 8 to fedora 9 hasn't worked as well as it should have.
[root@jumbovaio Desktop]# mv /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.14/dictionaries /usr/ lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.14/dictionaries.old [root@jumbovaio Desktop]# rpm -Uvh thunderbird-2.0.0.14-1.fc9.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:thunderbird ########################################### [100%] The problem seems to be caused by the f8 version installing the dictionaries, and the f9 version installing a symlink to the system dictionaries. A hacky approach that has worked for me is to move the old dictionaries to a different location (after stopping thunderbird) and then upgrading to the f9 version. This seems to have worked - I can run thunderbird and select the dictionary to use from the system ones OK.
I hit this as well. I ended up removing the old thunderbird and installing the new one. It seems really odd b/c the version is the same (2.0.0.14). You wouldn't expect a change like this in such a case.
Sigh. The problem is we want to do this for the new consolidated dictionaries feature which is in F9, but not in F8. But it seems we can never do that in Fedora $release when we ship the same RPM version of Thunderbird in $release -1 due to this stupid bug. We were able to do it for XULRunner because we never shipped XULRunner in F8. In F9, it also hit many people because this happened without changing the location of the file. I was waiting on a new version to add it to Thunderbird in F9 as the file location would change from .13 to .14, but it seems that is not even sufficient as it obviously breaks upgrades within the same RPM version. Sigh. Yes, the workaround is to rpm -e thunderbird. And I'll undo the feature in an update. Which sucks because it adds duplicate and stale data back onto the system.
I suppose the real thing to do is: * Revert the symlink right now in F9 * When the version changes again: - Move the current dictionaries file in F7 and F8 to be a different directory and add a symlink there. - Re-introduce the symlink to F9
I suppose you could also solve it with a careful %pre. Not sure what the packaging guidelines have to say about such things at present.
%pre is too late. We need to do %pretrans if we want to do it, which involves lua.
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