[mythtv-users] mythv 0.27 test packages (future RPM Fusion)

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
....
> Yup, I have a test package but yum/rpm is telling me the data directories
> between the two packages conflict... Right now I've got the symbolic link in
> %install and then a %pre and %post to migrate the data.

There is a really ugly hack to use the %pretrans hook
to change directories to symlinks, or files.

Partially documented at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=924660
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447156

(and a few other places, google is your friend :-)

There are some open tickets on rpm itself to "fix"
the issue, but none have ever gotten much traction
from the developers.

Gary