From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030901 Description of problem: When alternatives is installing some version, if the "target" link is already in place (e.g. /usr/bin/vim), pointing to a different location (e.g. not /etc/alternatives/vim), the alternatives software won't update it to point to /etc/alternatives/*, so one is forced to, for example, rm -f /usr/bin/vim when installing, so that alternatives is able rebuild the right link. How reproducible: Always
Could this be the same issue as bug 67387 and bug 107132?
Possibly, but in those the implication is that the link doesn't exist at all previously.
The other examples are both upgrades. This means that in both cases the /usr/sbin/sendmail is the binary (which was the case in 7.2). The old package gets only erased after the new files are installed. This means the old /usr/sbin/sendmail is in the way when the new package tries to create the symlink. So, sendmail is not handling the upgrade correctly. Contacting Thomas Woerner on this issue.
Otoh one could argue that /usr/sbin/alternatives indeed should remove an existing symlink. Not sure if it is a good idea that it would remove binaries though, like with RHL 7.2's /usr/sbin/sendmail.
*** Bug 67387 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 107132 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A rm -f <binary> of course is a bit harsh, but a mv <binary> <binary>.rpmsave seems like a clean solution. Only problem is that you might also have <binary>.rpmsaves as a result of an invocation of /usr/sbin/alternatives from the command line.
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Still happens with Fedora 8, chkconfig-1.3.36-1.x86_64. Reproducer: # rpm -e genisoimage # ln -s /foo/bar /usr/bin/mkisofs # rpm -i genisoimage-1.1.6-6.fc8.x86_64.rpm # ls -l /usr/bin/mkisofs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2008-04-03 21:28 /usr/bin/mkisofs -> /foo/bar Expected result: # ls -l /usr/bin/mkisofs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2008-04-03 21:29 /usr/bin/mkisofs -> /etc/alternatives/mkisofs # rpm -q --scripts genisoimage postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): link=`readlink /usr/bin/mkisofs` if [ "$link" == "genisoimage" ]; then rm -f /usr/bin/mkisofs fi /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/mkisofs mkisofs \ /usr/bin/genisoimage 50 \ --slave /usr/share/man/man1/mkisofs.1.gz mkisofs-mkisofsman \ /usr/share/man/man1/genisoimage.1.gz \ --slave /usr/bin/mkhybrid mkisofs-mkhybrid /usr/bin/genisoimage preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): if [ $1 = 0 ]; then /usr/sbin/alternatives --remove mkisofs /usr/bin/genisoimage fi
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http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=chkconfig.git;a=commitdiff;h=472ace3449a4cd6714723a79ba5e09c596561b2d Will be in 1.3.44-1.