Re: xterm-179-4 broken

[Andre Robatino <andre bwh harvard edu>]

> 
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Andre Robatino wrote:
> 
> >   Got a fatal error installing the newest xterm package from 8/28, the
> > error upon attempting manual install is:
> > 
> > [root localhost up2date]# rpm -Uvh xterm-179-4.1.i386.rpm
> > warning: xterm-179-4.1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e418e3aa
> > Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
> >    1:xterm                  ########################################### [100%]
> > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory
> 
> If you're already on severn, uninstalling the current xterm rpm and then
> installing the new one will allow it to install....
> 
> I'm not sure what happens on RHL 9

  I'm on severn with the latest updates from the severn-updates channel.
After experiencing the error with up2date, I noticed that the xterm package
had been uninstalled.  I then attempted manual install of the new package
as above, which still gave the error.  I then used

rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm 

and found that this directory was not owned by any package.  Presumably it
was owned by the old version of xterm but not cleaned up by the uninstall.
I deleted it manually and was then able to successfully install the new
version with the same command as before.