Dnf upgrade fails (gcc-toolset-13, cpio: symlink failed)

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Hello, tried to upgrade my system, but it fails with the following message:
Upgrading : gcc-toolset-13-libstdc++-devel-13.3.1-2.2.el9_5.x86_64 2/6
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /opt/rh/gcc-toolset-13/root/usr/bin/cc;67b8468a: cpio: symlink failed - No such file or directory error: gcc-toolset-13-gcc-13.3.1-2.2.el9_5.x86_64: install failed

I can probably fix it by uninstalling gcc-toolset-13 and installing again (or manually remove the link in question), but I’d prefer if this could be fixed on the distro level?

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Run as root

dnf list gcc-toolset-13-libstdc++-devel
scl --list
rpm --verify gcc-toolset-13-libstdc++-devel.x86_64
file /opt/rh/gcc-toolset-13/root/usr/bin/cc
dnf provides /opt/rh/gcc-toolset-13/root/usr/bin/cc
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Thanks for your reply.
I figured out the reason - permissions as /opt was mounted via NFS. I did not expect that dnf would install into /opt when I initially configured the machines and it has restricted root access from clients. Solved now.

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Some applications (mostly third-party packages, like from Dell, zoom, etc) do have files in /opt/
The GCC Toolsets, which continue the Software Collection style that el6 and el7 had, belong to that group.