R-fontawesome file conflict blocking upgrade to Fedora 39

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Error: Transaction test error:
file /usr/share/R/library/fontawesome/fontawesome from install of R-fontawesome-0.5.1-2.fc39.noarch conflicts with file from package R-fontawesome-0.5.1-1.fc38.noarch

Getting this error when trying to upgrade with sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=39. What to do?

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Youā€™ll need to uninstall that package in order to upgrade. You can reinstall it afterward.

Please file a bug against the R-fontawesome package. Itā€™s trying to replace a directory with a symlink, which is a well-known RPM limitation: Replacing a symlink with a directory or a directory with any type of file :: Fedora Docs

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Thanks, bug filed: 2252701 ā€“ R-fontawesome file conflict blocking upgrade to Fedora 39

Iā€™ll wait for a fix. R-fontawesome is a dependency for R-rmarkdown, so attempting to remove the former forces the removal of the latter as well as over a dozen other ā€˜no longer neededā€™ packages.

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Maybe or maybe not.
Did you try the removal with the --noautoremove option?
That makes the system ignore most of the dependencies that a removal will try to also remove and only removes the specified package and its ā€œhardā€ dependencies.

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Good to know. With --noautoremove, only the two packages R-fontawesome and R-rmarkdown would be removed. Easier to manage, but I think Iā€™ll still wait.

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These all seem to be new computer problems. Make sure your bios is up to date (check with board vendor sites). If not make sure data is on a separate (or at least backed up some other drive or media and download and do a fresh install.

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This has nothing to do with the BIOS. I updated the main FontAwesome package from the 4.x series to the 6.x series during the F39 development time frame and managed to screw up the R-fontawesome update. This is the offending commit for the curious:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/R-fontawesome/c/d135da2404b34bc2fe38debf594f725cdd7a1e98?branch=rawhide

Sorry about that. There were a lot of packages to update, and I managed to overlook this issue.

For @fasulia: there is nothing to be gained from waiting. Itā€™s a packaging bug that affects updates from previous versions of Fedora, nothing more. The end result of using --noautoremove and reinstalling will be the same as if you had done a fresh F39 install.

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https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/R-fontawesome/pull-request/2

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Thanks for the explanation. I went ahead with the uninstall/upgrade/reinstall workaround without issue.