Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 52621
rpm upgrade mode seems broken
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
rpm-4.0.3-0.93 I just manually upgraded to the kde packages from rawhide and after that kdm refused to start. So I did some investigations and found out that numerous files in kdebase were missing/modified in kdebase. So I checked to the other packages some of them were fine others had also missing files. As an easy testcase: Upgrade kdenetwork-ppp and the file /etc/pam.d/kppp will be gone. I had similar problems with upgrading foomatic,an where an entire directory tree was gone after upgrading the rpm, so I think this is an rpm and not a packing bug.
I downgraded kdenetwork-ppp to 2.2-4 and then upgraded to 2.2-5 w/o problem using rpm-4.0.3-0.97. Yes, foomatic has many files missing, dunno why, off to foomatic
Hmmm, back to rpm. Turns out kdebase is trying to replace a directory with a symlink which terminates payload unpacking immediately on an EISDIR return from rename(2). Ick, no error message from rpm. Will be repaired in rpm-4.0.3-0.98. foomatic has other problems, will be rebuilt. Off to kdebase to fix the packaging problem.with the symlink. Bero, here's the missing rpm error message D: fini 120777 1 ( 0, 0) 20 /usr/share/config/kdm;3b8a6eaf save GZDIO: 3447 reads, 28237824 total bytes in 6.018 secs error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/config/kdm: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory
We don't support updating from beta or rawhide packages. rpm -q --changelog kdelibs for details. It clearly states you're not supposed to update it from earlier 2.2-* versions.