Bug 484935

Summary:	biarch package and rpm -V
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Petr Sklenar <psklenar>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Priority:	low
Version:	4.8
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Description Petr Sklenar 2009-02-10 18:50:15 UTC

Description of problem:
When I have biarch package, which share same files, rpm -V complains


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.3.3-31_nonptl

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -Uvh bind-debuginfo.i386 bind-debuginfo.x86_64
2. rpm -V bind-debuginfo
.......T.   /usr/src/debug/bind-9.2.4/bin/dig/dig.c
.......T.   /usr/src/debug/bind-9.2.4/bin/dig/dighost.c
.......T.   /usr/src/debug/bind-9.2.4/bin/dig/host.c
.......T.   /usr/src/debug/bind-9.2.4/bin/dig/include/dig/dig.h
.......T.   /usr/src/debug/bind-9.2.4/bin/dig/nslookup.c
etc

3. rpm -e bind-debuginfo.i386
#files are removed and rpm -V bind-debuginfo
missing     /usr/src/debug/bind-9.2.4
missing     /usr/src/debug/bind-9.2.4/bin
missing     /usr/src/debug/bind-9.2.4/bin/check
missing     /usr/src/debug/bind-9.2.4/bin/check/check-tool.c
missing     /usr/src/debug/bind-9.2.4/bin/check/named-checkconf.c
etc
  
Actual results:
rpm -V complains


Expected results:
rpm -V return zero



Additional info:

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2009-03-12 19:33:21 UTC

Since RHEL 4.8 External Beta has begun, and this bugzilla remains 
unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as exception or 
blocker.

Comment 3 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 16:13:01 UTC

Thank you for submitting this issue for consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The release for which you requested us to review is now End of Life. 
Please See https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

If you would like Red Hat to re-consider your feature request for an active release, please re-open the request via appropriate support channels and provide additional supporting details about the importance of this issue.