dnf update fails on f30

[cen]

Error unpacking rpm package 
python2-backports-ssl_match_hostname-3.5.0.1-11.fc30.noarch
   Installing       : rlottie-0-2.20190707git0a43020.fc30.x86_64 140/537
error: unpacking of archive failed on file 
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/backports.ssl_match_hostname-3.5.0.1-py2.7.egg-info: 
cpio: File from package already exists as a directory in system
error: python2-backports-ssl_match_hostname-3.5.0.1-11.fc30.noarch: 
install failed

tips?

[Gordon Messmer]

On 8/2/19 12:54 PM, cen wrote:
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file 
> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/backports.ssl_match_hostname-3.5.0.1-py2.7.egg-info: 
> cpio: File from package already exists as a directory in system
>
> tips?

rpm -qf 
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/backports.ssl_match_hostname-3.5.0.1-py2.7.egg-info

I expect you will find that no package owns that directory.  That could 
be a packaging bug: an earlier version of rlottie owned the content of 
that directory but not the directory itself.  The new package owns the 
directory.  If that's the case, I think you'd need to remove the old 
package and remove that directory, and then install the new package.