On Nov 20, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Jan Palus wrote:
> Recently I added small patch to python-paramiko and built for testing, but
> upgrading failed with:
>
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file
> /usr/share/python2.7/site-packages/paramiko-1.7.6-py2.7.egg-info: cpio:
> rename failed - Is a directory
>
> Package from ftp contains directory
> /usr/share/python2.7/site-packages/paramiko-1.7.6-py2.7.egg-info
> which in new package turned into plain file (I'm not python guru so I
> have no clue why it happened at all). But generally speaking it is
> possible for directory to change into file with the same name and
> upgrade still should be possible. Is it my lack of knowledge or is it
> rpm bug?
RPM cannot just replace a directory with a symlink.
One can add a %pretrans to rename the directory and
accomplish the tranform between directory <-> symlink.
That has been described many times and many places,
most recently as a question & answer (with an explicit
example test case for regression testing) at
http://launchpad.net/rpm
If you need additional information, try asking again at
http://launchpad.net/rpm
hth
73 de Jeff
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