We have a work around for this issue.  Unfortunately, this problem is also in 
the 2.3 and 2.4 rpm packages.  I need to get more information from Vincent but 
this is what he wrote for a work around:

On Apr 10, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Ma, Dong (Vincent, Open Source Program Office) 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>  
> I already fixed this issue in 2.5, it is caused by the upgrade process 
> calling the cleanup script wrongly, but I didn’t realized it still exists in 
> 2.4 packages, after my check it still exist in 2.3 packages. So my suggestion:
> 1.       Patch the fix to the 2.3 and 2.4 packages (Done)
> 2.       If users already installed the 2.3 and 2.4 packages, using following 
> steps to fix the issue:
> a.       rpm -e --justdb fossology-common fossology-delagent 
> fossology-mimetype fossology-pkgagent fossology-wgetagent fossology-web 
> fossology-ununpack fossology-nomos fossology-copyright fossology-buckets 
> fossology-scheduler fossology fossology-db to remove the existing packages
> b.      delete the file: /etc/fossology/VERSION
> c.       Reinstall the packages with update packages: yum install fossology
>  
> Thanks,
> Vincent



On Apr 10, 2014, at 10:10 AM, Gobeille, Robert <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you are a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora FOSSology user, please hold off upgrading to 
> 2.5.  A user upgrading from 2.4.0 to 2.5.0 on CentOS 6.5 64bit just reported 
> that the install failed and yum removed his FOSSology files.  We will get to 
> the root cause behind this asap but I wanted to send this notice out 
> immediately to save you from a potential problem that would cause you to have 
> to recover from your backup.  I will send out another notice when we know the 
> root cause of this problem and have a solution.

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