ca-certificates problem on FC14

[mecrox]

Hi

After upgrading from FC13 to FC 14 I have a ca-certificates problem. It's the only package that won't install correctly. (As a result of which I used the yum update method instead of pre-update.) When I try to install the FC14 pacakge I get the following every which way:

ca-certificates2010.63-3.fc14.noarch.rpm     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Updating: ca-certificates2010.63-3.fc14.noarch                                                                
Error unpacking rpm package ca-certificates-2010.63-3.fc14.noarch
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/ssl/certs: cpio: rename
ca-certificates-2010-2.fc13.noarch was supposed to be removed but is not!

Failed:
  ca-certificates.noarch 0:2010.63-3.fc14

Anyone know of a solution?

[AdamW]

try removing the fc13 package with --nodeps first?

[mecrox]

Originally Posted by AdamW

try removing the fc13 package with --nodeps first?

Thanks, I've tried that but no luck, the fc14 package still foobars.

[AdamW]

where is this package coming from? is it re-downloading it with each attempt or pulling it from a cache?

my guess is, he's done a "Upgrade" an not a fresh install, this is what happens when people do Upgrades

[mecrox]

Many thanks for replies. I've cleared the problem by temporarily renaming directories. I think the new package was trying to create a symlink and this failed because there was already a directory of the same name in the folder from an earlier, FC 12-13 rpm.

Yes, I upgraded using yum, as I said in the first post. I tried pre-upgrade but it failed twice so I couldn't use it. No stomach for a clean install. If you can't upgrade in situ, one of the prime attractions of Linux goes out the window imho.

[Special Python]

Exactly which directory did you rename? I am having a problem (so are others) with the installation of f14 from DVD which halts at installing the ca-certificates package. Seems this problem is common to both preupgrade and DVD installation upgrades - but only affects certain machines.

[mecrox]

Originally Posted by Special Python

Exactly which directory did you rename? I am having a problem (so are others) with the installation of f14 from DVD which halts at installing the ca-certificates package. Seems this problem is common to both preupgrade and DVD installation upgrades - but only affects certain machines.

If I recall it was a directory called 'certs' inside the old ssl (or maybe openssl) one in /etc. The new package wants to create a symlink called 'certs' to a folder of them which is now placed in a different directory elsewhere but the existence of the old certs folder prevents this. I renamed my 'certs' folder to 'certs-old' and then things installed OK. I say 'if I recall' because other issues with FC14 meant that I've had to install another distro pro tem (a few must-have packages, in my case, turned out to be not yet available and ones from my FC13 install wouldn't work on FC14). Hope this helps.