Bug 76012

Summary:	glob failure in package name causes silent exit
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Dennis Gregorovic <dgregor>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Dennis Gregorovic 2002-10-15 19:26:49 UTC

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Description of problem:
When you try to install a package and the package name contains a glob , rpm
attempts to expand the glob.  If the glob does not match any filenames, then it
exits silently.  This is different behavior than one would expect.  I have
pasted an example below.

dgregor@galileo 5.1$ rpm -ivh /var/downloads/ccm-core-cms-devel-5.0.1-6.noarch.rpm
error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
dgregor@galileo 5.1$ rpm -ivh /var/downloads/ccm-core-cms-devel-5.0.1-6.noarch.rpm2
error: open of /var/downloads/ccm-core-cms-devel-5.0.1-6.noarch.rpm2 failed: No
such file or directory
dgregor@galileo 5.1$ rpm -ivh
/var/downloads/ccm-core-cms-devel-5.0.1-6.noarch.rpm[2]
dgregor@galileo 5.1$ 


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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.rpm -ivh <package name with glob characters>
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  exits silently if there are no matches

Expected Results:  warns that no package or file exists and/or that no packages
given for install

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-10-25 23:00:50 UTC

Here's a simpler test case:
    bash$ ls -al /tmp/abcde
    ls: /tmp/abcde: No such file or directory
    bash$ sudo rpm -Uvh /tmp/abcde
    error: open of /tmp/abcde failed: No such file or directory
    bash$ sudo rpm -Uvh /tmp/abcde[1]
    bash$ touch /tmp/abcde
    bash$ sudo rpm -Uvh /tmp/abcde
    error: /tmp/abcde cannot be installed
    bash$

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2002-10-26 14:22:48 UTC

Error message added for gob failure:
	bash$ rpm -Uvh /tmp/abcde[1]
	error: File not found by glob: /tmp/abcde[1]
Should be in rpm-4.2-0.6 when built.