PackageKit showing the same update continuously

John Lagrue jlagrue at gmail.com
Sat May 17 13:23:14 UTC 2008


2008/5/17 Remi Collet <Fedora at famillecollet.com>:

> Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
>
>> John Lagrue wrote:
>>
>>   Updating  : thunderbird                  ######################### [1/2]
>>> Error unpacking rpm package thunderbird-2.0.0.14-1.fc9.i386
>>> error: unpacking of archive failed on file
>>> /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.14/dictionaries: cpio: rename
>>>
>>
> This is a very old yum/rpm bug.
> You cannot update a "directory" with a "link".
>
> You should
>        yum remove  thunderbird
>        yum install thunderbird
>
> or      rm -rf /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.14/dictionaries
>        yum update
>
>
That's fixed it :) Thank you!

JDL
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