0007308: Update to RC failed - CentOS Bug Tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0007308	CentOS-7	centos-release	public	2014-07-07 06:43	2014-07-07 20:14

Reporter	mawe	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	major	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	resolved	Resolution	not fixable
Platform	CentOS	OS	7	OS Version	x86_64

Summary	0007308: Update to RC failed
Description	I had the link http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64-latest/ in my yum repo file. Did a update and changed the entry in repo to http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64-20140704-1/. After that I did a yum update again. The update from centos-release failed. Here the output: Downloading packages: No Presto metadata available for centos7 (1/2): centos-release-7-0.1406.el7.centos.2.3.x86_64.rpm \| 19 kB 00:00 (2/2): kexec-tools-2.0.4-32.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm \| 319 kB 00:01 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 214 kB/s \| 338 kB 00:01 Running transaction check Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded Running transaction Updating : kexec-tools-2.0.4-32.el7.centos.x86_64 1/4 Updating : centos-release-7-0.1406.el7.centos.2.3.x86_64 2/4 Error unpacking rpm package centos-release-7-0.1406.el7.centos.2.3.x86_64 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/doc/redhat-release: cpio: rename error: centos-release-7-0.1406.el7.centos.2.3.x86_64: install failed error: centos-release-7-0.el7.0.140617.3.x86_64: erase skipped Cleanup : kexec-tools-2.0.4-32.el7.x86_64 3/4 Verifying : kexec-tools-2.0.4-32.el7.centos.x86_64 1/4 centos-release-7-0.el7.0.140617.3.x86_64 was supposed to be removed but is not! Verifying : centos-release-7-0.el7.0.140617.3.x86_64 2/4 Verifying : kexec-tools-2.0.4-32.el7.x86_64 3/4 Verifying : centos-release-7-0.1406.el7.centos.2.3.x86_64 4/4 Updated: kexec-tools.x86_64 0:2.0.4-32.el7.centos Failed: centos-release.x86_64 0:7-0.el7.0.140617.3 centos-release.x86_64 0:7-0.1406.el7.centos.2.3 Complete!
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avij 2014-07-07 07:56 updater ~0020199	Try # rm -rf /usr/share/doc/redhat-release # rm -rf /usr/share/doc/centos-release and then try updating the centos-release package again. The symlinks for these directories were changed at some point, and yum doesn't seem to be able to handle the transition.

mawe 2014-07-07 08:08 reporter ~0020200	Ok, that is what I did, of course ;-) The background of bug report is to show what happen if you do this update. But I don't know how important this is, and if it's easy to fix. Thanks for quick answering to my bugs.

avij 2014-07-07 08:48 updater ~0020202	Yes, sure, thanks for testing and the bug report, this is much appreciated. I'm closing this bug as "not fixable" for now. It is known that upgrading from a prior pre-release centos-release to the current centos-release can lead to the error you described. Fresh installs of the newest centos-release package work without problems, so this is not going to be a problem for CentOS 7 GA. Note that there is no supported upgrade path from RC to GA. A fresh reinstall of the GA version is recommended, when CentOS 7 eventually hits General Availability.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2014-07-07 06:43	mawe	New Issue
2014-07-07 07:56	avij	Note Added: 0020199
2014-07-07 08:08	mawe	Note Added: 0020200
2014-07-07 08:48	avij	Note Added: 0020202
2014-07-07 08:48	avij	Status	new => resolved
2014-07-07 08:48	avij	Resolution	open => not fixable
2014-07-07 20:14	Evolution	Relationship added	related to 0007312
2014-07-07 20:16	Evolution	Relationship replaced	has duplicate 0007312
2014-10-20 12:14	~~shengvvvvv~~	Issue cloned: 0007760