Bug 990538 - file changed to symlink
Summary: file changed to symlink
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: thermostat
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Severin Gehwolf
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-07-31 12:17 UTC by David Juran
Modified: 2013-07-31 18:16 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-07-31 18:16:44 UTC
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Description David Juran 2013-07-31 12:17:02 UTC
Description of problem:
Updating from Fedora 17 with thermostat-0.3-1.fc17 to Fedora 19 with thermostat thermostat-0.9.2-4.fc19 fails since /usr/share/thermostat/agent/run (and a few other) changed from being a file to a symlink. These kind of changes aren't handled very well by rpm but need to be cleaned up manually.



How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install thermostat-0.3-1.fc17
2. yum update to latest F19 version
3.



Additional info:
The issue is similar in nature to Bug 976420

Comment 1 Severin Gehwolf 2013-07-31 18:16:44 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. At this point we can't really support dist-upgrades. The best you can do is (this will mean potential data loss):

sudo yum remove thermostat
rpm -qf /usr/share/thermostat (should not be owned by any package)
sudo yum remove /usr/share/thermostat.

Sorry about this, but we can't do much about this since upstream is still very much in flux too. In all fairness, upgrades from Fedora's where version # < latest - 1 is more than experimental terrain :)


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