Bug 1717347

Summary:	glibc: glibc-all-langpacks should only delete locale archive during uninstallation [rhel-8.1]
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-tools-bugs
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	8.1	CC:	ashankar, codonell, dj, fweimer, mnewsome, pfrankli, skolosov
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	8.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Fixed In Version:	glibc-2.28-65.el8	Doc Type:	No Doc Update
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Clones:	1717367 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2019-11-05 21:29:05 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	1717367
Bug Blocks:	1684559, 1715892

Description Florian Weimer 2019-06-05 09:55:07 UTC

The %postun scriptlet is buggy: It deletes /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive during package updates, not just during uninstallation.  As a result, it is currently very difficult to update to a glibc-all-langpacks package which installs this file.  See bug 1716710.

We should perform the deletion only if arg[2] == 0 (which signifies uninstallation).

Comment 2 Florian Weimer 2019-06-05 16:19:47 UTC

We also need to drop the %config attribute to avoid creating .rpmsave files in the future.

Comment 4 Sergey Kolosov 2019-09-19 13:02:31 UTC

Verified, glibc-lang-langpacks removes locale archive during uninstallation.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 21:29:05 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3513