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Bug 1278300

Summary: filesystem should own /usr/share/licenses directory
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Petr Pisar <ppisar>
Component: filesystemAssignee: Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Robin Hack <rhack>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.2CC: jamartis, jscotka, rhack
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Fixed In Version: filesystem-3.2-21.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-11-04 00:56:53 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1289025, 1305230    

Description Petr Pisar 2015-11-05 08:28:21 UTC 
Some packages deliver files under /usr/share/licenses:

# ls /usr/share/licenses
cryptsetup-libs-1.6.7              elfutils-0.163      openssh-6.6.1p1
device-mapper-event-libs-1.02.107  gmp-6.0.0           source-to-image-1.0.2
device-mapper-libs-1.02.107        krb5-libs-1.13.2    systemd-219
elfutils-libelf-0.163              lvm2-libs-2.02.130  systemtap-sdt-devel-2.8
elfutils-libs-0.163                lvm2-2.02.130

For example:

# rpm -qf /usr/share/licenses/lvm2-2.02.130/
lvm2-2.02.130-5.el7.x86_64

But the /usr/share/licenses is not provided by any package:

# LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 rpm -qf /usr/share/licenses
file /usr/share/licenses is not owned by any package

The /usr/share/licenses should be owned by filesystem package.

Affected package: filesystem-3.2-20.el7.x86_64.
Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2015-11-05 20:49:51 UTC 
Hmmms, /usr/share/licenses is owned by filesystem since Jul 28 2014 (#1121416) - it was too late for RHEL 7.0. But as %license started to work in fedora 19, it make sense to do that change in RHEL 7 as well. Thanks for report.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 00:56:53 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2217.html