RPM + packaging bug: many documentation files clobbered

[Hans de Goede]

Michel Salim wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I noticed something disturbing when trying to look up installed OpenSSL
> documentation
>  the other day: a lot of packages have their documentation files missing.
> Running this script on my system:
> 
> for i in `rpm -qa`; do
>   rpm -V --nomd5 --nosize $i 1>/dev/null 2>&1 || echo $i
> done
> 
> generates 283 packages, from acpid and anacron to yp-tools and zip.
> 
> The cause is three-fold:
> 1. Said packages put their documentation in %{doc}/%{name}-%{version},
> without %{release}
> 2. The RPM short-cut, triggered on package deletion, that skips the check if
> a file in /usr/share/ is owned by another package
> 3. Yum would install the new package, *then* remove the old package
> 
> As such I am not sure where to file this bug. It is quite disturbing as in
> the past only 64-bit users who want to remove 32-bit RPMs notice this, but
> now due to the documentation packaging of some packages, the bug is also
> triggered on minor updates (version unchanged, release number bumped).
> 
> Filing a bug against hundreds of packages sure does not look like fun.
> Suggestions?
> 

This is fixed in rpm-4.4.2.1, which is in rawhide now, and I believe it will be 
released as an F-7 update too.

Regards,

Hans