Daniel, isn't this "simply" a RPM SPEC bug that needs to be reported in the launchpad bug system and dealt with, rather than just documented as a knowledge base item?

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From: "Daniel Bartholomew" dbart@montyprogram.com To: "Maria Discuss" maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Sent: Friday, 30 September, 2011 2:25:12 AM Subject: [Maria-discuss] New KB Question: MariaDB 5.2.x server RPM fails on upgrades - error: scriptlet failed, exit status 1 A new question has been posted to the Knowledgebase:

MariaDB 5.2.x server RPM fails on upgrades - error: scriptlet failed, exit status 1

http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-52x-server-rpm-fails-on-upgrades-error-scr...

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This problem occurs on CentOS 5.5/5.6/6.0 32bit and 64bit from first time I used MariaDB 5.2.3 all the way to 5.2.9 upgrade. It happens

1) via manual RPM upgrade from RPM downloaded at http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.2/#file_type=rpm

or

2) via ourdelta YUM REPO update http://ourdelta.org/centos (yum update MariaDB*).

Problem, MariaDB-server-5.2.x RPM updates fails and needs manually removing previous version MariaDB-server-5.2.x RPM before the new update installs.

error

error: %pre(MariaDB-server-5.2.9-102.el5.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping MariaDB-server-5.2.9-102.el5

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Thanks.

-- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org