Bug 24692 – rpm-4.0.1 database problem

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Bug 24692 - rpm-4.0.1 database problem

Summary:	rpm-4.0.1 database problem

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2001-01-23 09:16 EST by benedict
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:30 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-01-23 09:16:35 EST
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Description benedict 2001-01-23 09:16:32 EST

I install rpm-4.0.1 on a host running 4.0,.
then, I go back to 4.0
then, I try going to 4.0.1 again - and I get a core-dump from 4.0 ...

[root@beast /root]# cd /users/src/install/
[root@beast install]# rpm.daimi -U
/users/src/install/RPMS/i386-none-Linux/rpm-4.0.010118-1.rpm
/users/src/install/RPMS/noarch-none-noos/rpm-shr-4.0.010118-1.rpm
[root@beast install]# rpm.daimi -U
/users/src/install/RPMS/i386-none-Linux/rpm-4.0-3.rpm
/users/src/install/RPMS/noarch-none-noos/rpm-shr-4.0-3.rpm --oldpackage 
[root@beast install]# rpm.daimi -U
/users/src/install/RPMS/i386-none-Linux/rpm-4.0.010118-1.rpm
/users/src/install/RPMS/noarch-none-noos/rpm-shr-4.0.010118-1.rpm
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-03-16 14:13:00 EST

Yup. What's happening is that rpm-4.0.[12] does not sort tags in the database.
When you
go back to rpm-4.0, a "must have" tag (i.e. there's no attempt to check that a
pointer
is NULL) causes a segfault. rpm-4.0.2 is both the cause and the solution,
otherwise
the end of headerLoad() needs modification so that tags are sorted when loading:
	h->sorted = 1;

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