Hi Bruno,
On 28 December 2013 16:43, Bruno Wolff III bruno@wolff.to wrote:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#The_.25pretrans_scriptle... Notes that you need to use lua in pretrans scriptlets, not shell commands.
Thanks. I've already seen that. It doesn't seem to make any difference whether it's a bash scriptlet or a lua scriptlet, though; irrespective of what language is used to delete the symlink, the problem still occurs.
I haven't found an example for you to copy, but note there are still some cases where changing symlinks to directories or vise versa won't work with rpm (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975909).
I think deleting the symlink manually may be revealing a problem in rpm. It seems to treat /usr/share/javadoc/test-1/hello (from the old package) and /usr/share/javadoc/test/hello (from the new package) as the same thing. Since the new package is installing /usr/share/javadoc/test/hello, it therefore decides to 'skip' the old 'hello' file, rather than 'erase' it.
I'm not sure yet why these two paths are considered to be the same...
Rich
Sorry, ignore this. I sent it to java-devel instead of devel.
Rich
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