Bug 1174137 - rpm: package installation is not transactional
Summary: rpm: package installation is not transactional
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Packaging Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-12-15 08:55 UTC by Florian Weimer
Modified: 2019-12-03 13:14 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-12-03 13:14:40 UTC
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Github rpm-software-management rpm issues 967 0 'None' open Rpm leaves untracked files behind on install failure 2021-02-10 12:12:50 UTC

Description Florian Weimer 2014-12-15 08:55:33 UTC
While trying the reproducer for bug 1173997, I noticed that a failed installation leaves behind files of which RPM does not keep track in any way:

$ sudo rpm -i test/data/kphotobymail-0.4.1-11.fc18.noarch.rpm  --nodeps
[sudo] password for fweimer: 
warning: test/data/kphotobymail-0.4.1-11.fc18.noarch.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID de7f38bd: NOKEY
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Kphotobymail/EXIF.pyc;548ea1b9: cpio: Digest mismatch
error: kphotobymail-0.4.1-11.fc18.noarch: install failed
$ rpm -qf /etc/kphotobymail.data 
file /etc/kphotobymail.data is not owned by any package

This is rather unexpected.  At least in such easy cases, RPM should recover from installation failures.

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Comment 2 Jan Kurik 2016-02-24 13:18:03 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 24 development cycle.
Changing version to '24'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora24#Rawhide_Rebase

Comment 3 Panu Matilainen 2016-10-12 11:03:46 UTC
Adding FutureFeature to avoid timeouting.

Making it truly transactional is just not going to happen, there's no undoing scriptlet actions etc. However I do agree rpm needs to be able to clean up after itself when unpacking fails.

Comment 4 Panu Matilainen 2019-12-03 13:14:40 UTC
There's nothing Fedora specific here, moving to upstream tracking where it belongs:
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/967


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