Problem upgrading mozilla-xulrunner

[Pascal Bleser]

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Rick Friedman wrote:
> I'm not really sure if this is a problem with Smart or with the package
> itself (or something else entirely)...
> 
> Currently, I have mozilla-xulrunner 1.8.0.1-32 installed. Using Smart
> 0.50rc1, I am trying to upgrade by installing
> mozilla-xulrunner180-1.8.0.6-0.i586.rpm from
> http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/SUSE_Linux_10.1/ .
> Unfortunately, when Smart tries to upgrade the package, the following
> error shows up in the log:
> 
> Output from mozilla-xulrunner180-1.8.0.6-0 at i586:
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.8.0.1:
> cpio: rename failed - Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> Anyone have any idea what might be the problem?

It's an rpm related problem (or, actually, cpio).
rpm uses cpio archives to store the files contained in an rpm package.
When you (or yast or smart or apt or yum or ...) install an rpm file,
rpm decompresses the cpio archive.

The error you're getting comes from a limitation of cpio: it cannot
overwrite a directory with a symbolic link (nor a symbolic link with a
directory).

To summarize, that error happens when you upgrade a package where a
directory (in the old package) is replaced by a symbolic link (in the
new package).

The solution:
rpm -e --nodeps mozlla-xulrunner
smart install mozilla-xulrunner180

cheers
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