Bug 240384

Summary: RPM tags FILEUIDS FILEGIDS missing
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: John Horne <john.horne>
Component: rpmAssignee: Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat>
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Description John Horne 2007-05-16 22:02:35 UTC 
Description of problem:
The following URL from your site shows that the rpm tags FILEUIDS/FILEGIDS are
defined:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/books/max-rpm/max-rpm-html/ch-queryformat-tags.html

However, using them gives an error.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.3.3-22_nonptl

How reproducible:
Run this command:

  rpm -qf --queryformat '[%{FILEUIDS}:%{FILEGIDS}:%{FILENAMES}\n]' /bin/ps


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run the above command
2.
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Actual results:
An error message is shown:

  error: incorrect format: unknown tag

Expected results:
File userids/gids should be listed for the relevant package.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2007-05-17 03:04:48 UTC 
Neither of FILEUIDS or FILEGIDS have been populated since (at least) rpm-2.4 in December, 1997.

NOTABUG
Comment 2 John Horne 2007-05-17 10:14:27 UTC 
So shouldn't the rpm command show nothing for their values rather than giving an
error then? If I request the FILEMD5S for a symbolic link it shows no value,
rather than an error.
Comment 3 Paul Nasrat 2007-05-17 10:17:27 UTC 
Maximum RPM is somewhat dated, as jbj says those are legacy header entries and
not populated by rpmbuild. Instead you should use:

rpm -qf --queryformat '[%{FILEUSERNAME}:%{FILEGROUPNAME}:%{FILENAMES}\n]' 

You've specified not queryable tags - rpm --querytags | grep IDS shows you that,
the error is correct. FILEMD5 is a queryable tag that may be empty.  It's a
different case.