I got problems with RH 5.1 & RH 5.2 on i386 and ADABAS D 6.x, adabas text-console utilities (like xquery, xpl etc.) become wild colored (and some keystrokes are also wrong). I found, that due new location of terminfo files (/usr/share/terminfo instead of /usr/lib/terminfo). When I created symlink /usr/lib/terminfo -> /usr/share/terminfo, things become right again. So i think that RH 5.x instalation should create this symlink automaticly.
This is one of the RPM shortcomings - we can not reliably replace one directory with a symlink to another directory when upgrading the rpm. This will take some engineering efforts to fix it in the rpm and terminfo is not the only package that experiences problems because of that. Basically only the programs that have ncurses linked statically in experience this problem. As always, staically linking libraries into executables is a BAD thing.
*** Bug 151 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is it possible to work around this RPM problem by creating symlinks in the %post script instead of putting symlinks into the package itself?
That would work in an idal world where we know that no other package is providing files under /usr/lib/terminfo. In real life we can not guarantee that, so doing a "rm -rf /usr/lib/terminfo" on a live filesystem is a no-go.
What about something like % post if [ ! -e /usr/lib/terminfo ]; then ln -s /usr/share/terminfo /usr/lib/terminfo fi ? It's not perfect, but at least harmless and would help some people
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