Bug 515948

Summary:	Errors installing glibc-devel-2.10.1-2.i586 with --excludedocs
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alexander Todorov <atodorov>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Andreas Schwab <schwab>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	dcantrell, fweimer, jakub, katzj, schwab
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Description Alexander Todorov 2009-08-06 11:24:54 UTC

Description of problem:
When installing with --excludedocs there are errors caused by missing files.

Version:
glibc-devel-2.10.1-2.i586

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to reproduce:
1) rpm -ihv --excludedocs glibc-devel-2.10.1-2.i586  

or:
- use %packages --excludedocs in kickstart
- enable %_excludedocs macro in RPM

Expected results:
Package is installed without errors

Actual results:
Error(s): Installing glibc-devel-2.10.1-2.i586
install-info: No such file or directory for /usr/share/info/libc.info.gz

Additional info:
This bug is automatically filed with python-bugzilla and component assignment may be incorrect.

Comment 1 Andreas Schwab 2009-08-06 12:49:54 UTC

This does not preclude installation since the error is ignored.

Comment 2 Alexander Todorov 2009-08-06 13:16:38 UTC

It is a problem for QE since we expect clean output from installation. You can either redirect error messages to /dev/null or better use something like:
[ -f /.../file.info.gz ] && install-info ....

Comment 3 Andreas Schwab 2009-08-06 13:37:20 UTC

What is QE and why does it do that?

Comment 4 Alexander Todorov 2009-08-07 08:09:35 UTC

QE == Quality Engineering

We want clean logs because otherwise people think there are errors with their installation. This is particularly true for RHEL products but clean logs is always a nice thing to have.

Please also see this thread:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2009-August/msg00028.html

As far as I can tell folks generally agree that this needs to be fixed in one way or another.

Comment 5 Andreas Schwab 2009-08-10 13:34:27 UTC

Fixed in 2.10.90-13.