Bug 173685 – update-alternatives --install should not remove non-symlinks

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Bug 173685 - update-alternatives --install should not remove non-symlinks

Summary:	update-alternatives --install should not remove non-symlinks

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	chkconfig (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
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Reported:	2005-11-18 16:54 EST by Thomas Fitzsimmons
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:56 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version:	1.3.24-1
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Last Closed:	2005-11-18 16:57:07 EST
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Description Thomas Fitzsimmons 2005-11-18 16:54:03 EST

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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.


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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.


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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-11-18 16:57:07 EST

Fixed in 1.3.24-1, in theory.

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