Bug 11708

Summary:	rpm -F and -U weirdness
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	pgiannoz
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2
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Hardware:	i386
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Description pgiannoz 2000-05-27 22:07:38 UTC

After upgrading from RH6.0 to RH 6.2 (on several machines):

1) rpm -F does not work

[root@mercedes giannozz]# rpm -qa | grep krb5
krb5-configs-1.1.1-9
krb5-libs-1.1.1-9
[root@mercedes giannozz]# rpm -Fvh  krb5-configs-1.1.1-16.i386.rpm
no packages require freshening
[root@mercedes giannozz]# rpm -Fvh  no-such-file
/usr/lib/rpm/freshen.sh: /etc/rpm: is a directory
exec: /etc/rpm: cannot execute: Permission denied
[root@mercedes giannozz]# rpm -Fvh
/usr/lib/rpm/freshen.sh: /etc/rpm: is a directory
exec: /etc/rpm: cannot execute: Permission denied

???

2) rpm -U does not install anything if one of the packages is already
installed. If it is a feature, it is not a good one.

Comment 1 pgiannoz 2000-05-27 22:29:59 UTC

Ok, I should have figured out that it was something stupid...For some reason
I had /etc/in the path of root before /bin, and the installation leaves an
empty /etc/rpm directory...rpm -F now works as it used to be.