[Fedora-packaging] Error in PREUN scriptlet in rpm package.

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 01/21/2012 01:06 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> When updating a package I came across this "Error in PREUN scriptlet 
> in rpm package".
>
> Now further inspection revealed that there was a misplaced semicolon 
> in %preun section of the relevant spec file.
>
> Easily fixable but what is the proper procedure to fix this via update 
> without having the user having to go to a terminal and run rpm -e 
> --noscripts $oldpackage to remove the old package?

Given the lack of response I assume that there is no proper way to 
handle this other than forcing users of the particular component to 
manually remove the relevant package after that update has been pushed.

JBG