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Bug 1717347

Summary: glibc: glibc-all-langpacks should only delete locale archive during uninstallation [rhel-8.1]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component: glibcAssignee: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-tools-bugs
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 8.1CC: ashankar, codonell, dj, fweimer, mnewsome, pfrankli, skolosov
Target Milestone: rcFlags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Target Release: 8.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Fixed In Version: glibc-2.28-65.el8 Doc Type: No Doc Update
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: 1717367 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-11-05 21:29:05 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 1717367    
Bug Blocks: 1684559, 1715892    

Description Florian Weimer 2019-06-05 09:55:07 UTC 
The %postun scriptlet is buggy: It deletes /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive during package updates, not just during uninstallation.  As a result, it is currently very difficult to update to a glibc-all-langpacks package which installs this file.  See bug 1716710.

We should perform the deletion only if arg[2] == 0 (which signifies uninstallation).
Comment 2 Florian Weimer 2019-06-05 16:19:47 UTC 
We also need to drop the %config attribute to avoid creating .rpmsave files in the future.
Comment 4 Sergey Kolosov 2019-09-19 13:02:31 UTC 
Verified, glibc-lang-langpacks removes locale archive during uninstallation.
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 21:29:05 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3513