[Nut-upsuser] package clash with 'rhino'

[Greg Troxel]

Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au> writes:

> I am upgrading to f42.
>
> I get this failure doing "dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=42"
>
> 2025-05-17T21:13:37+1000 CRITICAL Error: Transaction test error:
>   file /usr/bin/rhino conflicts between attempted installs of rhino-1.7.14-14.fc42.noarch and nut-2.8.3-1.fc42.x86_64
>
> Both packages contain a file with the same name.
>
> Is this problem being dealt with?

By who?   I am unaware of it being raised here.

> What is the recommended way of dealing with this issue? I DO need 'nut' but do not know if I need 'rhino'.

Trying my mind-reading skills, seeing "f42" and "dnf", I would guess you
are using a packaging-system/GNU/Linux distribution "Fedora" :-)

But seriously, it looks like you are running into a Fedora packaging
issue, not a nut issue.  I suggest you report this to Fedora.


It doesn't make sense to have /usr/bin/rhino in a package.   Looking at
the nut packages in pkgsrc, I find:

  ups-nut/PLIST:libexec/nut/rhino
  ups-nut/PLIST:man/man8/rhino.8

and rhino(8) says this is a driver:

  NAME
         rhino - Driver for Brazilian Microsol RHINO UPS equipment

as opposed to some javascript package.   I think rhino is new in 2.8.3.

nut's recommended build approach puts drivers in $prefix/libexec/nut, or
at least that's how pkgsrc does it.