atop package update error

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We got a yum error today on our ASL box when we updated:

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Running Transaction
Updating : atop 1/3
rpm-tmp.28270: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
rpm-tmp.28270: line 4: `fi'
Error in PREUN scriptlet in rpm package a
rpm-tmp.28270: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
rpm-tmp.28270: line 4: `fi'
Error in PREUN scriptlet in rpm package a

Updated:
atop.x86_64 0:2.0.2-3.el5.art

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Anything we need to do due to the errors?

Thanks.

[mikeshinn]

Note: atop is not part of ASL, so this thread has been moved to the Atomic YUM repo forums.

[breun]

The issue seems to be a bug in the preuninstall script of the previous release (2.0.2-2), which has this invalid statement:

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preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then
    # Package removal, not upgrade

fi

You actually end up with two installed versions of atop if you upgraded from 2.0.2-2:

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# rpm -q atop
atop-2.0.2-2.el5.art.x86_64
atop-2.0.2-3.el5.art.x86_64

Trying to uninstall atop-2.0.2-2 will fail with the same error message:

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# rpm -e atop-2.0.2-2.el5.art
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.35404: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.35404: line 4: `fi'
error: %preun(atop-2.0.2-2.el5.art.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 2

In this case you can get rid of the old version and work around the error by just skipping the scripts:

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# rpm -e --noscripts atop-2.0.2-2.el5.art

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breun:

Thanks!

[ghazlewood]

Thanks,

breun+1