cloudflare
RPM update fails with "ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/local/bin/cloudflared': File exists"
Describe the bug During cloudflared RPM package upgrade the process fails with error:
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/local/bin/cloudflared': File exists
warning: %post(cloudflared-2022.3.3-1.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Whole install log from DNF can be found below.
To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Install cloudflared-2022.2.2-1.x86_64
- Try to install cloudflared-2022.3.3-1.x86_64
- See error
Expected behavior RPM should be properly updated
Environment and versions
- OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.5 (Ootpa
- Architecture: x86_64
- Version: 2022.2.2 , 2022.3.3
Logs and errors
# dnf localinstall https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/latest/download/cloudflared-linux-x86_64.rpm
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs) 26 kB/s | 2.4 kB 00:00
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs) 34 kB/s | 2.8 kB 00:00
cloudflared-linux-x86_64.rpm 12 MB/s | 14 MB 00:01
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Architecture Version Repository Size
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Upgrading:
cloudflared x86_64 2022.3.3-1 @commandline 14 M
Transaction Summary
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Upgrade 1 Package
Total size: 14 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Upgrading : cloudflared-2022.3.3-1.x86_64 1/2
Running scriptlet: cloudflared-2022.3.3-1.x86_64 1/2
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/local/bin/cloudflared': File exists
warning: %post(cloudflared-2022.3.3-1.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Error in POSTIN scriptlet in rpm package cloudflared
Cleanup : cloudflared-2022.2.2-1.x86_64 2/2
Running scriptlet: cloudflared-2022.2.2-1.x86_64 2/2
Verifying : cloudflared-2022.3.3-1.x86_64 1/2
Verifying : cloudflared-2022.2.2-1.x86_64 2/2
Installed products updated.
Upgraded:
cloudflared-2022.3.3-1.x86_64
Complete!
[root@msi-wdp-tunnels-1 ~]# rpm -ql cloudflared
/usr/bin/cloudflared
/usr/share/man/man1/cloudflared.1
Additional context After the upgrade the cloudflared was not working. As a fix and workaround for update I removed the package and reinstalled.
Currently postuninstall script removes the link and the postinstall script creates the link. This code seems to assume that postinstall runs after postuninstall, but it actually runs in the reverse order, so the /usr/local/bin/cloudflared link ends up being deleted. This postinstall/postuninstall scripts need to be improved.
