Bug 1875 - rpm -f confused too easily
Summary: rpm -f confused too easily
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 5.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-03-29 21:43 UTC by kvajk
Modified: 2015-07-14 18:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-03-29 22:12:18 UTC
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Description kvajk 1999-03-29 21:43:11 UTC
The -f option to rpm is not smart enough about figuring out
the filename to look up in the RPM database.

Example:
  $ rpm --version
  RPM version 2.5.5
  $ cd /bin ; rpm -q -f ./sh
  file /bin/./sh is not owned by any package

Note that using realpath() is almost certainly NOT the right
answer.  (For example, if /usr/X11R6 is really a symbolic
link to /mnt/sparedisk/X11R6 or something.)

Thanks!

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-03-29 22:12:59 UTC
I believe this situation has been improved in later
versions of rpm-2.5.x.

And here's what rpm-2.9x does
	[root@ultra2 /root]# cd /bin
	[root@ultra2 /bin]# rpm -qf ./sh
	bash-1.14.7-15
	[root@ultra2 /bin]#

Comment 2 openshift-github-bot 2015-07-14 18:23:12 UTC
Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/openshift/origin

https://github.com/openshift/origin/commit/ac49969c0eaf6ce2227245eb00e4ad41487cbcf7
issue1875: make the force pull option configurable in the sti build strategy definition; various upstream documentation clarifications / enhancements; comments around reqs for coding/testing changes that run in the builder pod; fixes after merging (changes lost); incorporate comments from Ben

https://github.com/openshift/origin/commit/e56fd7b770d647d1d3acf7613747d186d232fdae
Merge pull request #3694 from gabemontero/issue1875

Merged by openshift-bot


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