From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012 Description of problem: When updating foomatic using this rpm string: rpm -Fvh foomatic*1018.6.i386.rpm I get this error message from rpm: 1:foomatic error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/foomatic/db/compiled: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory. This first occured when I attempted to update using foomatic-1.1-0.20011018.3.i386.rpm and occured again when I attempted to update using foomatic-1.1-0.20011018.6.i386.rpm just tonight (11/20/2001). Thanks. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.rpm -Fvh foomatic*1018.6.i386.rpm 2. 3. Actual Results: I get the error message indicated in the Description I wrote, see above. The foomatic package does not show the update when I run an rpm query (rpm -q foomatic). Expected Results: RPM should have applied the update without an error code. An rpm query should show the updated package as installed. Additional info: none
I just installed 7.2 to a new computer here in a server configuration with no X components. There are no other operating systems on the new machine. When I applied the foomatic updates to it, they completed without error. That made me remember I was running the Roswell beta on my workstation. Then I installed a boxed set of 7.2 as an "upgrade" on top of Roswell. Then I attempted to apply the foomatic updates I'm discussing in this report, and these won't install correctly as indicated above. Hope this helps with resolving the issue.
Yeah, this is a problem with upgrading from one of the roswell betas; you need to remove the directory in question first.