| Summary: | netshared files are all marked as not installed - rpm-3.0.2 | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | benedict |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-07-25 19:50:09 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
Rpm-3.0.x no longer distinguishes netshared from not installed since netshared and not installed have identical semantics: On install: don't install On remove: don't remove My problem is that rpm-3.0.x does not *verify* files which are on netsharedpath. That's a serious problem. The semantics of verify is different - netshared should be veriifed, not installed shouldn't. I have communicated with Erik about netsharedpath in the past - the concept is not very mature. But at least it used to work for me - now it doesn't even do what I want. Um, "not very mature" is an understatement :-). Anyways, I've resurrected net shared paths because of the (small) historical legacy of people who have used net shared path with rpm-2.5.x and consequently have packages with files in RPMFILE_STATE_NETSHARED. This should fix your verify problem if you reinstall packages with net shared paths in order to change the state of files on those paths. If you could also think through what you would like to happen on verify in situations where the file was not installed or was part of a non-rpm managed OS but md5sums/perms/uid/gid are available, I'd appreciate it; netshared is "not very mature". Please add you suggestions to bugzilla (or mail to rpm-list). Thanks. IMHO, netsharedpath should be done away with altogether. It is harmful to store a file state of 'net shared'. A file, originally installed on a remote filesystem, may later become local to the host without intervention from rpm, and vice versa. Having to keep my 'netsharedpath' up-to-date with the actual configuration of my hosts has proven to be a major pain. Furthermore, what do you do to symlinks which are on a local filesystem but point to a shared filesystem. I have e.g. /usr/local/man symlinked to a nfs mounted volume, allowing me to install man-pages on one disk only. However, I have trouble with the very symlink itself, because /usr/local/man is in netsharedpath, so rpm will not install the symlink. So, rpm should install/remove files if they are on local filesystems, and leave the files alone if they are not. |
All my netshared files are marked as state 'not installed' The rpm-3.0.2 code shows no instances of assigning the state RPMFILE_STATE_NETSHARED: caligula:~/builddir/rpm-3.0.2% grep RPMFILE_STATE_NETSHARED *{,/*}.[ch] lib/query.c: case RPMFILE_STATE_NETSHARED: lib/rpmlib.h:#define RPMFILE_STATE_NETSHARED 3 caligula:~/builddir/rpm-3.0.2% grep RPMFILE_STATE_NOTINSTALLED *{,/*}.[ch] lib/install.c: files[i].state = RPMFILE_STATE_NOTINSTALLED; lib/query.c: case RPMFILE_STATE_NOTINSTALLED: lib/rpmlib.h:#define RPMFILE_STATE_NOTINSTALLED 2 lib/verify.c: if (fileStatesList[filenum] == RPMFILE_STATE_NOTINSTALLED) caligula:~/builddir/rpm-3.0.2%