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| From | Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: pycparser error or openSUSE error |
| References | <87613zf2lu.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <201508282322.t7SNMsPg032423@fido.openend.se> |
| Date | 2015-08-29 01:30 +0200 |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.119.1440804686.11709.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
In a message of Sat, 29 Aug 2015 01:22:54 +0200, Laura Creighton writes: >In a message of Sat, 29 Aug 2015 00:51:57 +0200, Cecil Westerhof writes: >>When doing a ‘zypper update’ on openSUSE I get: >>Installing: python-pycparser-2.12-8.2 ..........................................................................................................................................................[error] >>Installation of python-pycparser-2.12-8.2 failed: >>Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pycparser-2.12-py2.7.egg-info: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory >>error: python-pycparser-2.12-8.2.noarch: install failed >> >>Is this a Python error or an openSUSE error? >> >>-- >>Cecil Westerhof >>Senior Software Engineer >>LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof > >SuSe is complaining. > >You almost certainly have this problem. > >https://joshua.hoblitt.com/rtfm/2013/05/dealing_with_rpm_cpio_rename_package_installupdate_errors/ > >Laura 'Almost certainly' was overstating it. (Just got home after beers with friends). The other good way I know to get this one is for that directory to already be there, or be a symlink to another device. The packager manager ought to be a lot smarter, but it defaults to 'panic, panic, die' ... when it sees something it didn't expect. Laura (more correct though still far from sober)
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pycparser error or openSUSE error Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-08-29 00:51 +0200
Re: pycparser error or openSUSE error Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-08-29 01:22 +0200
Re: pycparser error or openSUSE error Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-08-31 09:23 +0200
Re: pycparser error or openSUSE error Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-08-29 01:30 +0200
Re: pycparser error or openSUSE error Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-08-31 09:27 +0200
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