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RPM failing to install on RHEL

I am trying to install an RPM package on RHEL7. I am getting the following error;

Fri Aug 30 05:36:55 UTC 2019--> Start Installing downloaded package...
    file /etc/rc.d from install of abc.x86_64 conflicts with file from package chkconfig-1.7.4-1.el7.x86_64
    file /etc/rc.d/init.d from install of abc.x86_64 conflicts with file from package chkconfig-1.7.4-1.el7.x86_64
    file /etc/rc.d from install of abc.x86_64 conflicts with file from package initscripts-9.49.47-1.el7.x86_64
    file /etc/rc.d/init.d from install of abc.x86_64 conflicts with file from package initscripts-9.49.47-1.el7.x86_64
    file /usr/lib/systemd/system from install of abc.x86_64 conflicts with file from package systemd-219-67.el7_7.1.x86_64
    file /usr/lib/systemd from install of abc.x86_64 conflicts with file from package systemd-219-67.el7_7.1.x86_64

What does this error really mean? Does this mean that RPM abc is not allowed to make any changes to /etc/rc.d or chkconfig-1.7.4-1.el7.x86_64 is a conflicting package?

Solution

  • two rpm packages cannot provide the same file or directory. Therefore:

    DON'T

    this packages /etc/rc.d directory and content recursively.

    %files
/etc/rc.d

    DO

    package only the files that really belong to your package.

    %files
/etc/rc.d/init.d/*