Bug 534

Summary:	rpm -v flags mode discrepancies on many symlinks
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Joe Harrington <jhmail>
Component:	ucd-snmp	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	5.2	CC:	jhmail
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Description Joe Harrington 1998-12-19 00:31:53 UTC

rpm -v flags mode discrepancies on many symlinks.  They are
mode 755 or 644 in the package but get installed mode 777
(and it is impossible to change them to any other mode with
chmod).

ucd-snmp-devel-3.5.3-2
.M......   /usr/lib/libsnmp.so

Comment 1 Derek Tattersall 1998-12-21 15:50:59 UTC

see bug 528

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 1999-01-17 20:23:59 UTC

This is fixed in recent versions of rpm.