rpm silently removes %config(noreplace) files when they become symlinks

[Jeff Johnson]

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[Till (till-redhat-bugs)]

Description of problem:
When a package contains files marked as %config(noreplace) and in a later
release of this package these files become symlinks, then these files are
silently removed and no .rpmsave file is kept.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.4.2.2-7.fc8

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install mock-0.7.6-1.fc8
2. edit /etc/mock/fedora-5-i386-epel.cfg
3. yum update mock (to version 0.9.7-2.fc8)

Actual results:
after update /etc/mock/fedora-5-i386-epel.cfg is a symlink to epel-5-i386.cfg.
The original file fedora-5-i386-epel.cfg is lost.

Expected results:
1a) There should be a new symlink created: /etc/mock/fedora-5-i386-epel.cfg.rpmnew
1b) Or: fedora-5-i386-epel.cfg should be saved as epel-5-i386.cfg and a
epel-5-i386.cfg.rpmnew should be created
In conclusion: There should be copy of the fedora-5-i386-epel.cfg kept somewhere
and rpm should indicate, that manual intervention is needed.

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[Panu (panu-redhat-bugs)]

Still happens in F10

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reproducible with rpm 4.7.2-1.fc12

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[Miloslav (miloslav-redhat-bugs)]

Created attachment 702800
old.spec

Still seeing this in rpm-4.10.3.1-1.fc18.x86_64.

To reproduce
> rpmbuild -ba old.spec
> rpmbuild -ba new.spec
> rpm -Uvh .../config-1-1.x86_64.rpm
modify /etc/cfgxx/filename
> rpm -Uvh .../config-2-1.x86_64.rpm

Actual results: /etc/cfgxx/filename has been replaced by a symlink, throwing away the old contents.

Expected results: /etc/cfgxx/filename.rpmnew symlink created, /etc/cfgxx/filename unmodified.

[Miloslav (miloslav-redhat-bugs)]

Created attachment 702801
new.spec

[Stef (stef-redhat-bugs)]

This is no longer a dependency of the System Certificates work. The processing of the symlinks required custom processing, which Kai has written a script for.

[Panu (panu-redhat-bugs)]

Good. Then I'm going to close this NEXTRELEASE: this, along with numerous other %config related bugs, has been fixed in rpm >= 4.11 but backporting all the related and required changes even to 4.10 is just too involved and risky.