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Bug 173665 - package attempts to replace a directory with a symlink
Summary: package attempts to replace a directory with a symlink
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-xbitmaps
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Mike A. Harris
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Blocks: FC5Blocker xorg-modular
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-18 20:44 UTC by Nalin Dahyabhai
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-11-23 15:21:17 UTC
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Description Nalin Dahyabhai 2005-11-18 20:44:44 UTC 
Description of problem:
Installing xorg-x11-xbitmaps on a system with openmotif previously-installed
breaks because openmotif puts files in /usr/include/X11/bitmaps/, causing
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps to be a directory.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.99.1-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install openmotif 2.2.3-14
2. Attempt to install xorg-x11-xbitmaps
  
Actual results:
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/include/X11/bitmaps: cpio:
rename failed - Is a directory
Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2005-11-21 21:32:45 UTC 
openmotif is about to lose bigtime.  <grin>

It should put it's files in it's own directory, say /usr/include/Xm or
/usr/include/not-X11, to maximize compatibility in the future by keeping
it's own namespace.

New X packages are going to force this problem to go away, but in the
process, will break any package already installed which put files in
X's include dir.

<cartman>Bad openmotif!  That's a bad openmotif!</cartman>

Theoretically fixed packages in dist-fc5-HEAD, but they wont hit the
buildroot until the tree becomes unlocked and they hit dist-fc5, as
the buildroot doesn't look in -HEAD.

I'll update this again, once we have things in the right place.
Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2005-11-23 15:14:39 UTC 
This problem should be resolved now with the following packages installed:

xorg-x11-filesystem >= 0.99.2-3
filesystem-2.3.7-1
xorg-x11-bitmaps >= 0.99.1-4


IMPORTANT NOTE:  As mentioned above, there is a caveat to this solution,
which is that packages that have installed their files into X.Org owned
directories, while there was a symlink in the path, will now have to
be reinstalled.  There may be rpm installed files left behind afterward
as well.  Such is rawhide...

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