yum update fails on unpacking of xulrunner at update.

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 05:24:25 UTC 2008


On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:52:06 +0700, Strong wrote:

> When I try to update xulrunner the F9b version through yum I have this:
> 
>   Updating  : xulrunner                    #########################
> [1/2] Error unpacking rpm package xulrunner -
> 1.9-0.44.cvs20080315.fc9.x86_64 error: unpacking of archive failed on
> file /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9pre/dictionaries: cpio: rename
> 
> I have downloaded the file with wget and then tried to install it via
> rpm -U, now through yum - but the result was the same.
> 
> as result I can not run firefox-3.0-0.44.cvs20080315.fc9 (F9b):
> 
> Error: Platform version '1.9b3pre' is not compatible with
> minVersion >= 1.9b5pre
> maxVersion <= 1.9b5pre
> 
> How to fix it? Thank You for Your time.

Issues with 9-Beta should be posted to fedora-test-list instead,
where it's much more likely that somebody knows about such a problem.
Probably there's a temporary packaging mistake, trying to replace a
symlink. If you insist on fixing this yourself, rpm -e --nodeps the
old xulrunner package, then yum install the new one.




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