problem with rpm: rename/unlink failed: is a directory

Artur Frysiak wiget at pld.org.pl
Fri Oct 18 15:03:35 CEST 2002


On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 01:05:49PM +0200, Michal Moskal wrote:
> 
> However rpm by default overwrites files, so why shouldn't it overwrite
> directories?

rpm 4.1 install new files as name.randomstring and rename it to name at
end of successfull transaction (think 'commit') or remove name.randomstring (think
'rollback') if installation fail.

Regards
-- 
Artur Frysiak
http://www.pld-linux.org/



More information about the pld-devel-en mailing list