Bug 238993

Summary:	gimp removes symlinks to plugins of other packages when updated
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Nils Philippsen <nphilipp>
Component:	gimp	Assignee:	Nils Philippsen <nphilipp>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.0	CC:	lkundrak, nguyenthihongvan.tnmt
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2007-0343	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2007-05-21 13:02:53 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Nils Philippsen 2007-05-04 11:32:00 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #238337 +++

Description of problem:
gimp can't find the xsane plugin unless its placed under
/usr/lib{,64}/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xsane-gimp-0.994-3.fc7

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start gimp as root
2. In the "File"->"Acquire" menu, you find no entries starting with "XSane:"
3. ln /usr/bin/xsane-gimp /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/ # replace %{_libdir} on
 32 bit boxes
4. start gimp as root
5. In the "File"->"Acquire" menu, there's now an entry starting with "XSane:libusb:"
  
Actual results:
gimp can't find the xsane plugin

Expected results:
"XSane" entry under "File"->"Acquire" menu by default.

Additional info:

-- Additional comment from nphilipp on 2007-04-30 03:46 EST --
Externally packaged gimp plugins use /usr/sbin/gimp-plugin-mgr to install the
symlinks in the (versionized) gimp plugin directory. I presume that some of the
scripts weren't executed properly when installing/updating.

In order to refresh the symlinks, run the following command as root:

/usr/sbin/gimp-plugin-mgr --install '*'

-- Additional comment from nphilipp on 2007-04-30 12:44 EST --
Reopened, because I could reproduce the bug when updating the package. It seems
I got the order in which pre/post/un scriptlets are executed mixed up.

-- Additional comment from nphilipp on 2007-04-30 12:54 EST --
gimp-2.2.14-3.fc7 is building right now which should fix this problem.

-- Additional comment from nphilipp on 2007-04-30 15:41 EST --
I've noticed that my fix was still suboptimal and have updated it in
gimp-2.2.14-4.fc7 which is building at the moment.

Note that when updating from an affected version of the gimp to a fixed one
you'll likely still see the problem because the culprit is in the packages
%preun script, i.e. the broken script is run. This means that the fix will only
help for subsequent updates, use the workaround I described above once again to
fix things (hopefully for the last time).

-- Additional comment from nphilipp on 2007-05-01 03:50 EST --
gimp-2.2.14-5.fc7 (building right now) shouldn't fail the %pre/%preun scripts
with the symlink missing.

-- Additional comment from nphilipp on 2007-05-04 02:29 EST --
Changing component to gimp (which is where the bug is).

-- Additional comment from nphilipp on 2007-05-04 03:35 EST --
*** Bug 238861 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-05-21 13:02:53 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0343.html