[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Non-root owned symlink causes install failure (Issue #3100)

[Michal Domonkos]

> I guess this is very much intentional as the owner may send RPM to overwrite random files otherwise. This is the very case we did re-write the fsm for.
> 
> This still needs to give a sane error message, giving the user a fighting chance to find out what's the issue.

Oh, indeed. Actually that's also what the original RHEL ticket is about (i.e. to improve the error reporting here), I just filed this GH ticket in a rush and apparently didn't quite read through the RHEL ticket properly. I'll fix up the "Expected results" here.

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