Re: Further Adventures of Xfree86 4.2.1

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 09:23:48AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> Xfree86 4.2.1-21 is now available at the usual places. It appears to
> fix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98082. It
> provides much smaller RPMs. Thanks you.
> 
> When upgrading from 4.2.1-20, it installs just fine and appears to
> work.
> 
> When I tried to upgrade from 4.2.0-72, I get the following error:
> 
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/X11/xkb: cpio: rename
> failed - Is a directory
> 
> On my sucessful upgrade (from 4.2.1.20):
> 
> [root@issola root]# ll /etc/X11/xkb
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           27 Jul  3 18:32 /etc/X11/xkb -> ../../usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
> [root@issola root]# ll -d /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
> drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root         4096 Jul  3 18:32 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
> 
> On my unsucessful upgrade:
> 
> [root@jhereg autoupdate]# ll -d /etc/X11/xkb
> drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root         4096 Mar  3 07:03 /etc/X11/xkb
> [root@jhereg autoupdate]# ll -d /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           23 Mar  3 07:03 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -> ../../../../etc/X11/xkb
> 
> This suggests that manually moving and symlinking to the directory will
> solve the problem. I'll give that a try later when I have the time to
> make a total bare metal backup of a test system. Meanwhile, if anyone
> else wants to try it, good luck.

[root@jhereg autoupdate]# rm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
[root@jhereg autoupdate]# mv /etc/X11/xkb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
[root@jhereg autoupdate]# ll -d /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root         4096 Jul  9 19:31 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
[root@jhereg autoupdate]# ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb  /etc/X11/xkb
[root@jhereg autoupdate]# ll /etc/X11/xkb
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           22 Jul  9 19:32 /etc/X11/xkb -> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb

And the upgrade was sucessful.

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