From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-21 i686) Description of problem: The latest errata upgrade fails with: 1:foomatic error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/foomatic/db/compiled: cpio rename failed - Is a directory I was able to work around it by: # cd /usr/share/ # mv foomatic foomatic- # rpm -Uvh foo*rpm Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. The system was running roswell. 2. It was upgraded using standard upgrade procedure 3. Registered in RHN 4. up2date -d -f -u 5. cd /var/spool/up2date 6. rpm -Uvh *.rpm Everything upgraded except foomatic and kdebase, both with the above cpio error. Additional info:
From a clean Red Hat Linux 7.2 installation, all the current updates apply cleanly. (Verified earlier today.) Perhaps you had installed some packages that were not official errata?
Did you have foomatic installed before applying errata? Specifically, I had problems with: foomatic-1.1-0.20011018.7 as an errata to a 7.2 box. (leaving as CLOSED, but please respond)
Yes, I did. I was testing a foomatic/printconf errata candidate (not yet released), and part of that test was a clean 7.2 install (including foomatic), an update to latest errata (including foomatic-1.1-0.20011018.7), a test print, and an upgrade to the errata candidate packages. No cpio errors here. /usr/share/foomatic/db/compiled is a symlink here.