Bug: RPM package conflict with other electron apps

[curtisbelt]

Steps To Reproduce

First, install insomnia-2022.5.1-1.x86_64 as this is a known conflict. Note this bug is related to Electron and is not specific to Insomnia. It's just an example app that I have confirmed causes the conflict.

• https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases/download/core%402022.5.1/Insomnia.Core-2022.5.1.rpm
• https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/releases/download/desktop-v2022.9.0/Bitwarden-2022.9.0-x86_64.rpm

sudo dnf install ./Insomnia.Core-2022.5.1.rpm 
sudo dnf install ./Bitwarden-2022.9.0-x86_64.rpm

Expected Result

Bitwarden should install/upgrade without an issue.

Actual Result

======================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                    Architecture                            Version                                       Repository                                     Size
======================================================================================================================================================================================
Upgrading:
 bitwarden                                  x86_64                                  2022.9.0-1                                    @commandline                                   62 M

Transaction Summary
======================================================================================================================================================================================
Upgrade  1 Package

Total size: 62 M
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Error: Transaction test error:
  file /usr/lib/.build-id/a2/562c52725bb7caa27cd0de814ec368b8c45e7f from install of bitwarden-2022.9.0-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package insomnia-2022.5.1-1.x86_64

Screenshots or Videos

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Additional Context

This is the same issue as ferdium/ferdium-app#416. The issue author @UriMtzF did a wonderful job on research:

To prevent this from conflicting with other Electron based apps, it's necessary to omit all the symlinks, to achieve this, Electron-builder uses fpm to have an easier way to build linux apps.

The solution is to tell Electron-builder to have some flags on fpm while building the rpm to prevent creating those symlinks.

According to Electron-builder documentation and fpm documentation this option is --rpm-rpmbuild-define "_build_id_links none", this should be changed on the electron-builder.yml file at the root of the project

Please refer to the following links to find the proper way to do this:

• Documentation of electron build and the "fpm" option
• The fpm usage
• The macros on rpm, specifically those flags used on fpm
• A stackoverflow question on avoiding the creation of symlink

Some sources:

• Package conflict with anther software Zettlr/Zettlr#1321
• install rpm /user/lib/.build-id conflicts electron-userland/electron-builder#5227
• Unwanted directories added to RPM jordansissel/fpm#1503
• A thread from RHEL talking about conflicting files on rpm's

Operating System

Linux

Operating System Version

Fedora 36 (this bug probably affects any rpm-based Linux distribution)

Installation method

Direct Download (from bitwarden.com)

Build Version

I'm on 2022.8.1 but the bug is when installing Bitwarden-2022.9.0-x86_64.rpm

[tangowithfoxtrot]

@curtisbelt, thanks for reporting this! I have reproduced this on my end, and will update the status of this in our internal tracking system.

[shreyas-segu]

Facing the exact same issue when installing Insomnia after Bitwarden

[curtisbelt]

Looks like Slack is a conflict now as well.

Tried installing the latest bitwarden-2023.1.1-1.x86_64.

Error: Transaction test error:
  file /usr/lib/.build-id/0d/9fad3f21b1e381cc66b5efcae8f3910ae0edc1 from install of bitwarden-2023.1.1-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package slack-4.29.149-0.1.el8.x86_64
  file /usr/lib/.build-id/76/9d0269491ca2313fcd15d63059bac67bd8b1b3 from install of bitwarden-2023.1.1-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package slack-4.29.149-0.1.el8.x86_64
  file /usr/lib/.build-id/c2/dcac7cb6a727685d10d4161a0d14988f12a0fa from install of bitwarden-2023.1.1-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package slack-4.29.149-0.1.el8.x86_64
  file /usr/lib/.build-id/cb/dc9db5fec0e6129bddcb0c282be98be4c6966e from install of bitwarden-2023.1.1-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package slack-4.29.149-0.1.el8.x86_64

In the meantime, I work around this by manually downloading the rpm file and install via rpm directly, with --force flag:

sudo rpm -iU --force ./Bitwarden-2023.1.1-x86_64.rpm

[djfjeff]

I have the same issue on my end with Slack.

[acazan]

Same issue with: Bitwarden-2023.2.0-x86_64.rpm

Error: Transaction test error:
file /usr/lib/.build-id/0d/9fad3f21b1e381cc66b5efcae8f3910ae0edc1 from install of bitwarden-2023.2.0-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package slack-4.29.149-0.1.el8.x86_64
file /usr/lib/.build-id/76/9d0269491ca2313fcd15d63059bac67bd8b1b3 from install of bitwarden-2023.2.0-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package slack-4.29.149-0.1.el8.x86_64
file /usr/lib/.build-id/c2/dcac7cb6a727685d10d4161a0d14988f12a0fa from install of bitwarden-2023.2.0-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package slack-4.29.149-0.1.el8.x86_64
file /usr/lib/.build-id/cb/dc9db5fec0e6129bddcb0c282be98be4c6966e from install of bitwarden-2023.2.0-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package slack-4.29.149-0.1.el8.x86_6