Bug 1576970

Summary: /usr/bin/acpidump not owned by the package
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik>
Component: acpica-toolsAssignee: Al Stone <ahs3>
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Description Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2018-05-10 21:16:58 UTC 
Description of problem:
/usr/bin/acpidump is not owned by the acpica-tools package, hence it's impossible to obtain the tool with "dnf install /usr/bin/acpidump".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
acpica-tools-20180209-1.fc27.x86_64
$ ls -l /usr/bin/acpidump
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 26 May 10 23:07 /usr/bin/acpidump -> /etc/alternatives/acpidump

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf install /usr/bin/acpidump
2. dnf install acpica-tools
3. rpm -qf /usr/bin/acpidump

Actual results:
No match for argument: /usr/bin/acpidump
Error: Unable to find a match

file /usr/bin/acpidump is not owned by any package

Expected results:
Successful installation and correct file ownership.

Additional info:
I don't know why this package is using alternatives for the acpidump tool, but the Packaging Guidelines for alternatives do require your package to own the alternativized files (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Alternatives#How_to_use_alternatives):

If a package is using alternatives, the files which would otherwise conflict MUST be installed with an appropriate suffix (for example: %{_sbindir}/sendmail.postfix instead of %{_sbindir}/sendmail), the original locations MUST be touched (for example: touch %{_sbindir}/sendmail), the links set up by alternatives MUST be listed as %ghost in the file list and proper Requires: MUST be added, like in the examples below.

Putting the alternativized files in the file list ensures that they are owned by respective packages, which means that commands like:

    rpm -qf /usr/bin/foo
    yum install /usr/bin/foo
    repoquery --whatprovides /usr/bin/foo

all work properly. Using %ghost for this purpose allows using globs and generated file lists.
Comment 1 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2018-05-10 21:20:35 UTC 
It looks like pmtools used to provide acpidump and acpiextract, but it was retired in F20+ and it's dead upstream (website no longer resolves in DNS), so maybe it's time to stop doing alternatives here?
Comment 2 Al Stone 2018-05-11 00:09:25 UTC 
(In reply to Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski from comment #1)
> It looks like pmtools used to provide acpidump and acpiextract, but it was
> retired in F20+ and it's dead upstream (website no longer resolves in DNS),
> so maybe it's time to stop doing alternatives here?

Perhaps so.  There is an acpidump in the kernel source tree, but in theory it's the same code; acpiextract I *think* has always been part of ACPICA, but the packaging has changed quite a bit.  I have not looked at either of these topics in a while but will do so again.  Thanks for the reminder!
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2018-05-15 21:01:00 UTC 
acpica-tools-20180508-1.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-3767c8c9da
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2018-05-15 21:01:21 UTC 
acpica-tools-20180508-1.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-61076aa862
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2018-05-16 01:33:39 UTC 
acpica-tools-20180508-1.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-3767c8c9da
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2018-05-16 03:27:59 UTC 
acpica-tools-20180508-1.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-61076aa862
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2018-05-22 19:38:07 UTC 
acpica-tools-20180508-2.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-c8f3be3336
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2018-05-22 19:38:26 UTC 
acpica-tools-20180508-2.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-bc16c6f899
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2018-05-23 16:20:22 UTC 
acpica-tools-20180508-2.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-c8f3be3336
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2018-05-23 17:37:39 UTC 
acpica-tools-20180508-2.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-bc16c6f899
Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2018-06-02 20:43:30 UTC 
acpica-tools-20180508-2.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2018-06-02 21:05:30 UTC 
acpica-tools-20180508-2.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.