Bug 49375
| Summary: | DANGER! rpm corrupts device files | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Jonathan Kamens <jik> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 1.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-07-18 19:36:16 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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Hmm, a little less "DANGER Will Robinson!" FUD, please. rpm-4.0.3-0.73, in our build system for ~6 hours, misbuilt the dev package. Fixed in rpm-4.0.3-0.74. |
I've got rpm-4.0.3-0.69. Run "rpm -q -l -v -p dev-3.2-1.i386.rpm | head" and you'll see: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 17 17:58 /dev crw------- 1 root root 10, 10 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/adbmouse crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 175 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/agpgart crw------- 2 root root 10, 4 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/amigamouse crw------- 1 root root 10, 7 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/amigamouse1 crw------- 1 root root 10, 134 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/apm_bios drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/ataraid brw-rw---- 1 root disk 114, 0 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/ataraid/d0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 114, 1 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/ataraid/d0p1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 114, 10 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/ataraid/d0p10 But watch what happens when you tell RPM to convert this into cpio format and tell cpio to list it ("rpm2cpio dev-3.2-1.i386.rpm | cpio --list --verbose | head"): drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 0 Jul 17 17:58 ./dev crw------- 1 root root 0, 0 Dec 31 1969 ./dev/adbmouse crw-r--r-- 1 root root 0, 0 Dec 31 1969 ./dev/agpgart crw------- 1 root root 0, 0 Dec 31 1969 ./dev/amigamouse crw------- 1 root root 0, 0 Dec 31 1969 ./dev/amigamouse1 crw------- 1 root root 0, 0 Dec 31 1969 ./dev/apm_bios drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 17 17:58 ./dev/ataraid brw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 0 Dec 31 1969 ./dev/ataraid/d0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 0 Dec 31 1969 ./dev/ataraid/d0p1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 0 Dec 31 1969 ./dev/ataraid/d0p10 Yowza! This means, e.g., that if you use this version of rpm to upgrade your "dev" package, your system will be totally hosed.