On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM Elliott Sales de Andrade
<quantum.anal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM Jos de Kloe <josdek...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > as suggested on this Directory_Replacement page I tried to solve this
> > problem by adding a little lua scriptlet.
> > Unfortunately it seems not to work for me so I must be missing some
> > details here.
>
> You aren't missing anything. The scriptlet doesn't work, as the
> transaction is checked by dnf before rpm scriptlets even happen. The
> best workaround is to just _not_ change directories to symlinks or
> vice versa. How to actually do that depends on the package, though.
> Given the recent Change Proposal to hard-link duplicate files, maybe
> the simplest option is to just make the symlinks into duplicate
> directory copies.
>
> I don't know why that documentation page still exists; I've never been
> able to get it to work as documented, and it's been that way for a
> long time:
> https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/1139
As I understand it, some behaviour of dnf changed a few years ago,
which made the approach documented in the Packaging Guidelines
("Directory_Replacement" page) no longer work.
So there's currently no really good / documented way to handle this case.
(And we should remove the docs for things that no longer work, I agree.)
Fabio
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