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FS#55140 - community/open-vm-tools-6:10.1.10-1 installs file to /lib instead of /usr/lib

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Aaron Bishop (Erroneous) - Monday, 14 August 2017, 11:50 GMT
Last edited by Christian Hesse (eworm) - Monday, 14 August 2017, 12:23 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
open-vm-tools tries to install a file to /lib/udev/rules.d/99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules when it should be installed to /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules

I had to rename the /lib symlink, install the package, move the file to /usr/lib, remove the /lib directory, and rename the /lib symlink back to install.

Additional info:
* package version open-vm-tools-6:10.1.10-1

Steps to reproduce:
sudo pacman -Syu
...
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
open-vm-tools: /lib exists in filesystem
open-vm-tools: /lib/udev/rules.d/99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules exists in filesystem
pacman -Qo /lib
/lib is owned by filesystem 2017.03-2
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Closed by  Christian Hesse (eworm)
Monday, 14 August 2017, 12:23 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#55138 

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