Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 124514
rpm verify misses "missing files/links"
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:43 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: My Problem: Somehow lost links in rc0.d files for S* scripts. Which caused locked up shutdown. Had a sector remap on disk! probably due to power outage. Left me with a number of missing directories and files. The real Fedora Problem: Doing a verify via rpm did not pick this up even though these are listed in file list with rpm -qi. Eventually found problem by investigation. This may be problem iwith rpm and not initscripts. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 7.42.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.remove links to S* in rc0.d 2.run rpm -V initscripts 3. Actual Results: rpm -v shows no problems. Expected Results: rpm should show missing files/links Additional info:
The scripts in rc0.d may or may not exist depending on how the machine is configured, and hence are marked %config(missingok) in the package (i.e. it is not a verify failure if the file is not found).
Yes I can understand this argument - but also isnt the verify there to indicate differences to what was initially installed. Other components of verify show changed permissions on file etc which are also dependent on "how the machine is configured" for use. Also, in this case a major script was missing ie the link back to the halt script - shouldnt this stay regardless.