From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: update-alternatives --install removes slaves if they're in its database but are no longer slaves of the master being installed, even if slave has been changed to something other than a symlink. This behaviour causes legitimate files to be removed during upgrades that change a file from an alternative symlink to a normal file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. build and install java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp_51rh 2. build and install java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp_52rh Actual Results: /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db does not exist: $ rpm -qV java-1.4.2-gcj-compat ..?...... /etc/java/security/security.d/1000-gnu.java.security.provider.Gnu missing /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db Expected Results: Smooth upgrade. Additional info:
Fixed in 1.3.24-1, in theory.