[herrold@pokey herrold]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/mcedit mc-4.1.35-2 [herrold@pokey herrold]$ rpm -V mc .M...... /usr/bin/mcedit [herrold@pokey herrold]$ ls -al /usr/bin/mcedit lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 May 3 1998 /usr/bin/mcedit -> mc ... This _may_ be something which needs to be addressed in the RPM area -- the same error occurs with ESR's specfile build of procmail on a linked man page ...
I can't reproduce this bug on Red Hat 6.0 sparc/intel with rpm-3.0.