[Nut-upsuser] package clash with 'rhino'

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

On 18/5/25 22:07, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 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.

I raised it on the fedora users list and then created
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2267022
and it seems to progress from there.

I raised it on Nut-upsuser last as I thought they added this file.
It was also in f40 but the two were in /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin and the f42 merge led to this conflict now.

> It doesn't make sense to have /usr/bin/rhino in a package.

So you are saying that the driver is not part of nut, and it is fedora that included it in the package,
but in the wrong way/place.

Do I understand it correctly?

>   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.

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