Bug 73935

Summary: Does not work when installed with an umask of 077 and messes filesystem
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Enrico Scholz <rh-bugzilla>
Component: mod_perlAssignee: Gary Benson <gbenson>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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URL: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/dircheck/null/packages.html#mod_perl-1.99_04-3
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Description Enrico Scholz 2002-09-13 14:56:05 UTC 
Description of Problem:

Because this package contains unowned directories, they will be created
with the current umask. When having restrictive administrator settings
(umask 077) ordinary user will not have access to them and can not use
the package.

Another problem occurs when removing packages. Then orphaned directories
are remaining.

| $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Bundle /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Bundle/ApacheTest.pm
| file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Bundle is not owned by any package
| mod_perl-1.99_04-3


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

mod_perl-1.99_04-3


How Reproducible:

100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. umask 077
2. make sure that mod_perl is uninstalled completely
   (rm -rf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Bundle)
3. rpm -U mod_perl-1.99_04-3.i386.rpm
4. ls -l /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Bundle
5. use the programs/scripts/libraries of the package as non-root user
6. rpm -e mod_perl-1.99_04-3

Actual Results:

* at 4:
  | drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Sep 13 16:19 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Bundle
* files can not be found/read at 5 and
* /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Bundle still exists after 6.
Comment 1 Gary Benson 2002-09-13 16:12:40 UTC 
The directories in question are intentionally not owned by mod_perl since other
packages put files in there.  The real solution to this is probably to make the
perl package create and own all auto and Bundle directories and to fix the other
packages that claim to own them (perl-DBI, perl-DBD-MySQL and perl-DBD-Pg).
Comment 2 Gary Benson 2002-09-13 16:18:55 UTC 
I filed this as bug 73970.
Comment 3 Enrico Scholz 2002-09-13 16:21:17 UTC 
rpm allows directories to be shared between several packages. The directory will
be kept when there are existing other packages owning it and removed when there
are no such packages.

Because there are too much perl-XXX bundle packages it makes no sense to let all
possible directories under /usr/lib/perl5 owned by perl or to create perl-XXX
hierarchie packages describing the perl-filesystem.

Jeff Johnson spends a lot of energy into rpm to add features like refcounted
directories, so you should these them ;)
Comment 4 Gary Benson 2002-09-13 16:32:37 UTC 
It's not a question of making 'all possible directories under /usr/lib/perl5
owned by perl', merely a question of making perl own
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/$VER/$ARCH/{Bundle,auto} and
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/$VER/{Bundle,auto}.

Anyway I'll go with whatever Chip says on this...