caching downloaded packages

[Pascal Bleser]

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Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> Smart 0.50, 64-bit SuSE 10.0.
> 
> Doing a 'smart upgrade', I see the message:  error - unpacking of
> archive failed on file /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.8.1;  cpio: rename
> failed - Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> If I repeat the 'smart upgrade' it downloads the file again (before
> hitting that same error).  How come the downloaded file is not being
> left in /var/lib/smart/packages ?

It's not related to smart, actually, but to a cpio limitation (which is
what rpm is using as its internal archive format).

The problem comes from a symbolic link in the current version of the
package being overwritten by a real directory in the newer version of
that package (or the opposite, I don't remember).

The trick is as follows:
rpm -e --nodeps xulrunner
smart install xulrunner

(or "xulrunner181" instead of "xulrunner", I don't remember which one it
was ;))

cheers
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