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

Michal Moskal malekith at pld-linux.org
Fri Oct 18 15:16:04 CEST 2002


On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:03:35PM +0200, Artur Frysiak wrote:
> 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.

Ah, so yelp really wasn't installed? Ok then. But the problem with
directories remains.

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