Bug 134388

Summary: Upgrades between same nevr and differing content leave files around
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mariusz Mazur <mmazur>
Component: rpmAssignee: Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version: rawhideCC: barryn, kad, ldv, nobody+pnasrat, solar
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URL: http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/rpm-bug/
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Description Mariusz Mazur 2004-10-01 21:47:58 UTC 
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Description of problem: 
If I have to packages with same nevr, but package A has 'oldfile' and package 
B has 'newfile', and I upgrade (-U --force) from package A to package B, than 
'oldfile' doesn't get removed but there's no info of it's presence in rpm's 
database. 
 
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How reproducible: 
Always 
 
Steps to Reproduce: 
 1. Download two packages from http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/rpm-bug/ 
2. rpm -i sometestpkg-old.rpm 
3. rpm -U --force sometestpkg-new.rpm 
4. ls /bin/oldfile 
5. rpm -qf /bin/oldfile 
 
 
Actual Results:  'oldfile' is there but rpm doesn't know about it. 
 
Expected Results:  'oldfile' should get removed. 
 
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Comment 1 Michael Schröder 2005-01-05 16:03:17 UTC 
It's because rpm only does a "refresh" operation if the nevr is the 
same, i.e. only the installation phase is done and no erase phase at 
all. (There's a hack in rpm that removes the old header from the 
database.)
Comment 2 Dmitry V. Levin 2005-10-16 23:24:19 UTC 
Most non-intrusive approach to implement the
Comment 3 Dmitry V. Levin 2005-10-16 23:25:58 UTC 
Most non-intrusive approach to implement the fix is to add one more key to
distinguish packages with same NEVR.  What do you think about BUILDTIME?
Comment 4 Dmitry V. Levin 2005-10-17 21:45:47 UTC 
And if BUILDTIME is not sufficient, then SHA1HEADER should be enough.
Comment 5 Dmitry V. Levin 2005-10-18 15:23:11 UTC 
Created attachment 120124 [details]
rpm-owl-compare-digest.diff

Proposed implementation, backported from the patch I made for Owl's rpm-4.2.
Comment 6 Jeff Johnson 2005-10-22 21:05:33 UTC 
Fixed in rpm-4.4.3-0.18. Thanks for the patch.