Bug 468286
| Summary: | alsa-info tries to update (overwrite) itself | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta> |
| Component: | alsa-utils | Assignee: | Jaroslav Kysela <jkysela> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | jkysela |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 1.0.19-2.fc10 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-03-02 16:57:07 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 1102375 | ||
This issue should be fixed in latest alsa-info shell script. Not fixed. The only difference now is that if run as non-root, the script is downloaded to /tmp/alsa-info.sh. If run as root, it still tries to replace itself. Non-root: $ alsa-info [...] Newer version detected: 0.4.53 To view the ChangeLog, please visit http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh.changelog ALSA-Info script has been downloaded as /tmp/alsa-info.sh. Please, re-run it from new location. Root: # grep ^SCRIPT_VERSION /usr/bin/alsa-info SCRIPT_VERSION=0.4.52 # alsa-info [...] Newer version detected: 0.4.53 To view the ChangeLog, please visit http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh.changelog ALSA-Info script has been updated. Please re-run it. # grep ^SCRIPT_VERSION /usr/bin/alsa-info SCRIPT_VERSION=0.4.53 OK, I added more informative text what is script trying to do in 0.4.54 (alsa-utils-1.0.19-2 package for F-10), so user can cancel the upgrade operation. alsa-utils-1.0.19-2.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |
$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/alsa-info alsa-utils-1.0.17-2.fc9.x86_64 $ alsa-info ALSA Information Script v 0.4.41 -------------------------------- This script will collect information about your ALSA installation and sound related hardware, to help diagnose your problem. By default, the collected information will be AUTOMATICALLY uploaded to a pastebin site. If you do not wish for this to occur, run the script with the --no-upload argument Do you want to run this script? [y/n] : y cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/bin/alsa-info': Permission denied Newer version detected: 0.4.51 To view the ChangeLog, please visit http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa/log/tip/alsa-info.sh ALSA-Info script has been updated. Please re-run it. ---- So, alsa-info "phoned home" and found a newer version of itself available, and tried to overwrite itself with the newer one. It didn't happen as I was not running it as root and thus /usr/bin/alsa-info could not be written to, but I don't think this is quite appropriate behavior for packaged software. I suggest patching out the part where it downloads a newer copy of itself and tries to overwrite itself, and replacing it with something that just prints out info if a newer version is available and prints out a download URL so people can download it somewhere else without overwriting the original if they want to run the latest version.