rpm 4.4.9 overwrites config files on first installation

[Patryk Zawadzki]

When installing setup into a clean tree (no packages installed yet and a clean or no rpm database) it overwrites /etc/fstab without creating fstab.rpmnew. This breaks anaconda installations.

Jeff confirmed this as an rpm 4.4.9 bug. glen tested the same behavior on 4.5 and confirmed that it works correctly.

We could try to find the change that fixed this for 4.5 or wait until 4.5 is an option for PLD.

[Elan Ruusamäe (glen666)]

rpm -r rpm-4_5 branch is now prepared for ac/ti/th distro lines.

i personally use rpm 4.5 for some time in my test builder already since april 2008.

[Patryk Zawadzki (patrys)]

What about:

http://rpm5.org/cvs/tktview?tn=38&_submit=Show
http://rpm5.org/cvs/tktview?tn=39&_submit=Show
http://rpm5.org/cvs/tktview?tn=40&_submit=Show
http://rpm5.org/cvs/tktview?tn=41&_submit=Show

[Elan Ruusamäe (glen666)]

what about them?

those are reported against rpm 5.x ...

[Patryk Zawadzki (patrys)]

glen: Sorry, not enough coffee.

Arek, could you comment on rpm 4.5?

[Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz (arekm)]

If it's ready then we can test it on carme first. If it will be fine *then* th-test.

rpm 5.0 from HEAD also was "ready" at first, second and third look while the problems were noticed after a week or two.

[Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz (arekm)]

rpm-4.5, /usr being used (bad, bad)

[arekm@carme-pld ~/rpm/SPECS]$ ldd /bin/rpm |grep "/usr/lib"
        libneon.so.27 => /usr/lib64/libneon.so.27 (0x00007f5f80f02000)
        libossp-uuid.so.16 => /usr/lib64/libossp-uuid.so.16 (0x00007f5f80872000)
        libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib64/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0x00007f5f80204000)
        libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0x00007f5f7fe8e000)
        libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x00007f5f7fc61000)
        libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2 (0x00007f5f7f922000)
        libkrb5.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libkrb5.so.3 (0x00007f5f7f686000)
        libk5crypto.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x00007f5f7f462000)
        libkrb5support.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x00007f5f7f058000)

[Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz (arekm)]

rpm-4.5:

macro not expanded:
-14: __cxx @CXX@

missing support for mimetype provides
-14: __mimetype_provides %{_usrlibrpm}/mimetypedeps.sh --provides

%distribution macro seems to be missing
+-14: distribution PLD

perl.req doesn't match rpm-4.4.9 one

php.prov different, needs check

php.req - totally different

poldek (HEAD) built with rpm 4.5 fails where poldek:HEAD works fine with 4.4.9:

[arekm@carme-pld ~/rpm/RPMS]$ sudo poldek -s . --mkidxz
Creating pndir index of /home/users/arekm/rpm/RPMS/ (type=dir)...
Wczytywanie [dir]/home/users/arekm/rpm/RPMS/...
błąd: asterisk-examples-1.4.21.1-1.2.bristuff.i686.rpm: odczyt nazwy/wersji/release nie udał się
Something wrong, something not quite right with 0.30 (snap20080820.23)
Assertion 'pkg' failed, dir.c:258
Please report this bug to <email address hidden>.

zsh: abort sudo poldek -s . --mkidxz
[arekm@carme-pld ~/rpm/RPMS]$ rpm -qK asterisk-examples-1.4.21.1-1.2.bristuff.i686.rpm
asterisk-examples-1.4.21.1-1.2.bristuff.i686.rpm: sha1 md5 OK

rpm 4.5 is not ready for th... (you can play with it for now in carme th x86_64 env).

[Elan Ruusamäe (glen666)]

note: it fails on x86_64, but succeeds in i686 arch

[Elan Ruusamäe (glen666)]

megabajt, can you look on the poldek problem?

[Marcin Banasiak (megabajt)]

I noticed yet another problem with rpm 4.5 - repackage doesn't work:

$ sudo rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs poldek-libs-0.30-0.20080820.23.2.i686.rpm --define "%_repackage_all_erasures 1"
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
Repackaging...
   1:poldek-libs lzma: Memory usage limit is too small for the given filter setup
########################################### [100%]
Upgrading...

... and upgrade failed, but:

$ sudo rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs poldek-libs-0.30-0.20080820.23.2.i686.rpm --define "%_repackage_all_erasures 0"
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
   1:poldek-libs ########################################### [100%]

... works fine.

Note that repackage works with rpm 4.4.9

[Marcin Banasiak (megabajt)]

glen, it was propably rpm bug. There were some undefined references in librpmdb, which have been fixed by rpm-link-selinux.patch. Could you build rpm first, then poldek and test it?

[Elan Ruusamäe (glen666)]

patrys,

does rpm q>p reverse patch solve the discard of %config files?

more precisely rpm built with this patch applied:
  http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/SOURCES/rpm-rpm5-patchset-10061.patch?only_with_tag=auto-th-rpm-4_4_9-81

[Elan Ruusamäe (glen666)]

as of rpm-4.5-0.55.amd64

comment #6:
> rpm-4.5, /usr being used (bad, bad)
solved. neon is now default off

comment #7:
> macro not expanded: -14: __cxx @CXX@
solved

> missing support for mimetype provides -14: __mimetype_provides %{_usrlibrpm}/mimetypedeps.sh --provides
mimetype enabled by default for th

> %distribution macro seems to be missing +-14: distribution PLD
did you test from vserver? it's defined in /etc/rpm/macros which doesn't contain %distribution in vserver installs (so it's borken in 4.4.9 too)

> poldek crash...
follow megabajt notes in comment #11.

[Patryk Zawadzki (patrys)]

glen, I don't see any changes when telling poldek to --install-dist=/tmp/foo setup - it still overwrites /etc/fstab

[Elan Ruusamäe (glen666)]

megabait, about comment #10: i'm not able to reproduce the repackage bug with rpm-4.5-0.58.i686

if you're able, can you post the rpm package so i could test myself too.

[Elan Ruusamäe (glen666)]

arekm, please re-evaluate rpm-4.5-0.59

[Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz (arekm)]

carme $ poldek -s . --mkidxz
Creating pndir index of /home/users/arekm/rpm/RPMS/ (type=dir)...
Wczytywanie [dir]/home/users/arekm/rpm/RPMS/...
200..400..600..800..1000..1200..1400..1600..1800..2000..2200..2400..2600..2800..3000..3200..3400..3600..3755
uwaga: /home/users/arekm/rpm/RPMS/: usunięto 17 zdublowanych pakietów
Zapisywanie /home/users/arekm/rpm/RPMS/packages.ndir.gz...
zsh: segmentation fault poldek -s . --mkidxz

sill fails :-(

rpm-4.5-0.59.x86_64
poldek-0.30-0.20080820.23.3.x86_64

[Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz (arekm)]

Turns out this isn't rpm 4.5 problem because even rpm 4.4.9 from th-i686 segfaults on this rpms set (probably one of packages is broken).

[Elan Ruusamäe (glen666)]

note that th now includes rpm 4.5

[Patryk Zawadzki (patrys)]

Th now ships 4.5 so we're not likely to fix 4.4.x

[Elan Ruusamäe (glen666)]

Ac ships with 4.5 as well, at least since Sat Oct 1 15:25:14 2011 UTC
according to cvs tags --

http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/cvs/packages/rpm/rpm.spec?r1=1.837.2.42.2.49.2.107&view=log

:)