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Bug 52769

Summary:	/usr/share/config/kdm linked messed up!
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Sammy <sait.a.umar>
Component:	kdebase	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Sammy 2001-08-28 20:39:40 UTC

Description of Problem:

In 2.2-6 I first removed "rm -rf /usr/share/config/kdm"
then I installed the package. The link that was created
contained some special characters! e.g.

kdm;8F340234---> ../../../etc/kde/kdm

something similar to that. I removed it and replaced it with kdm
only and it started to work.

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Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-29 10:54:15 UTC

The proper procedure for updating from <= 2.2-6 to >= 2.2-7 is

rpm -e --nodeps kdebase
rpm -ivh kdebase-2.2-8.i386.rpm

The problem is that rpm can't handle replacing a directory with a symlink, 
which is what we're doing. (The fact that it was a directory rather than a 
symlink was a bug in 2.2-1 to 2.2-6, which we never released officially [and 
rawhide is supposed to break occasionally ;)])

Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-09-04 20:01:31 UTC

*** Bug 53166 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-09-05 13:10:39 UTC

*** Bug 53243 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***