pycparser error or openSUSE error

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Sat, 29 Aug 2015 01:22:54 +0200, Laura Creighton writes:
>In a message of Sat, 29 Aug 2015 00:51:57 +0200, Cecil Westerhof writes:
>>When doing a ‘zypper update’ on openSUSE I get:
>>Installing: python-pycparser-2.12-8.2 ..........................................................................................................................................................[error]
>>Installation of python-pycparser-2.12-8.2 failed:
>>Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pycparser-2.12-py2.7.egg-info: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory
>>error: python-pycparser-2.12-8.2.noarch: install failed
>>
>>Is this a Python error or an openSUSE error?
>>
>>-- 
>>Cecil Westerhof
>>Senior Software Engineer
>>LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof
>
>SuSe is complaining.
>
>You almost certainly have this problem.
>
>https://joshua.hoblitt.com/rtfm/2013/05/dealing_with_rpm_cpio_rename_package_installupdate_errors/
>
>Laura

'Almost certainly' was overstating it.  (Just got home after beers
with friends).  The other good way I know to get this one is
for that directory to already be there, or be a symlink to another
device.  The packager manager ought to be a lot smarter, but it
defaults to 'panic, panic, die' ... when it sees something it didn't
expect.

Laura  (more correct though still far from sober)