[Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions

Mon Jul 23 08:37:07 CEST 2012

* Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Shlomi Fish at 22/07/12 17:51 did gyre and gimble:
+> > Hi all,
+> > 
+> > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:46:58 +0300
+> > Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:
+> > 
+> >> Hi Colin,
+> >>
+> >> [QUOTE]
+> >> installing findutils-4.5.10-2.mga3.x86_64.rpm lib64plymouth2-0.8.6.1-2.mga3.x86_64.rpm filesystem-2.1.9-18.mga3.x86_64.rpm lib64ncursesw-devel-5.9-7.mga3.x86_64.rpm plymouth-plugin-script-0.8.6.1-2.mga3.x86_64.rpm lib64ncurses5-5.9-7.mga3.x86_64.rpm ncurses-5.9-7.mga3.x86_64.rpm plymouth-plugin-label-0.8.6.1-2.mga3.x86_64.rpm lib64dbjava5.1-5.1.29-4.mga3.x86_64.rpm lib64ncursesw5-5.9-7.mga3.x86_64.rpm lib64ncurses-devel-5.9-7.mga3.x86_64.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms
+> >> Preparing...                     #############################################
+> >>      1/69: filesystem            #############################################
+> >> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/lock: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory
+> >> error: filesystem-2.1.9-18.mga3.x86_64: install failed
+> >>      2/69: ncurses               #############################################
+> >>      3/69: lib64ncurses5         #############################################
+> >>      4/69: lib64plymouth2        #############################################
+> >>      5/69: plymouth-plugin-label #############################################
+> >>      6/69: lib64ncursesw5        #############################################
+> >>      7/69: lib64ncursesw-devel   #############################################
+> >>      8/69: plymouth-plugin-script
+> >>                                  #############################################
+> >>      9/69: lib64ncurses-devel    #############################################
+> >>     10/69: findutils             #############################################
+> >>     11/69: lib64dbjava5.1        #############################################
+> >> [/QUOTE]
+> >>
+> >> And the rest of the packages refuse to install.
+> > 
+> > OK, I figured out. After I ran as root:
+> > 
+> > # cd /var
+> > # mv lock lock.ol
+> > # mv run run.old
+> > 
+> > It was fixed and I was able to install the "filesystem" package and the rest
+> > of the packages. However, something like that should not happen.
+> 
+> 
+> Well, this should have been done for you. Did you already have
+> run.runmove~ and lock.lockmove~ folders in /var?
+> 
+> If so then I suspect something is killing the symlinks.
+
+Is it normal that in the same time filesystem package provide
+/usr/{lib,bin} etc as directory whereas the pre script transform it as
+symlink (according
+http://sophie.zarb.org/rpms/696f0450c6b9baa8dcf088602f19c810/files).
+
+For me they must be symlinks in the filesystem rpm.
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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