2023.3 rpm installation fails due to file conflicts with another Electron app

[vashirov]

Issue report

Operating system: Fedora 38

App version: 2023.3

Issue description

mullvad-vpn-2023.3-1.x86_64 rpm installation fails with the following message:

Error: Transaction test error:
  file /usr/lib/.build-id/0d/9fad3f21b1e381cc66b5efcae8f3910ae0edc1 from install of mullvad-vpn-2023.3-1.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 mullvad-vpn-2023.3-1.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 mullvad-vpn-2023.3-1.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 mullvad-vpn-2023.3-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package slack-4.29.149-0.1.el8.x86_64

This issue is similar to:
bitwarden/clients#3524
jgraph/drawio-desktop#259

I believe it can be fixed by adding --rpm-rpmbuild-define=_build_id_links none to the fpm options for rpm build:

mullvadvpn-app/gui/tasks/distribution.js

Lines 203 to 208 in 2cc9013

	rpm: {
	fpm: [
	'--directories=/opt/Mullvad VPN/',
	'--before-install',
	distAssets('linux/before-install.sh'),
	'--before-remove',

[intheendtheyweregone]

Had this same issue when trying to update Mullvad for a relative.. installed fine after adding the --force flag when installing. Not sure what, if any, consequences this had, but the "conflicting" applications seemed to work fine after.

sudo rpm -i --force MullvadVPN-2023.3_x86_64.rpm

[pinkisemils]

Thanks for reporting this, we'll look into this.