Description of problem: A number of directories in the perl-DBI package are not listed in the RPM or in any RPM which it requires. This make verifying directory permissions with "rpm -V" or "rpm -q --dump" impossible. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): perl-DBI-1.40-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: $ for file in `rpm -ql perl-DBI` ; do rpm -qf `dirname $file` ; done | grep not | sort | uniq Actual Results: file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/Bundle is not owned by any package file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/DBD is not owned by any package file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/DBI/Const/GetInfo is not owned by any package file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/DBI/Const is not owned by any package file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/DBI/DBD is not owned by any package file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/DBI/ProfileDumper is not owned by any package file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/Win32 is not owned by any package Expected results: Directories used by a package should either be included in the package's RPM or in another RPM that the RPM requires. Additional info: This was noticed due to a problem with perl-DBD-MySQL. Somehow (unsure how), a number of our perl directories were set to 700 permissions. Doing: rpm -V `rpm -qa perl\*` wasn't any help in tracking down the problem since the directories/permissions aren't stored in the RPM. Since perl-DBD-MySQL and perl-DBD-Pg both depend upon perl-DBI, it would seem that perl-DBI would be the proper owner of at least a couple of the directories above (DBD, DBI/*). If there is a directory where it is less clear which individual package should own it (perhaps Win32 above), then it would be nice to have at least a common dependency on a simple "dummy" RPM that just contains the diretory structure. perl-DBD-MySQL and perl-DBD-Pg have similar problems, but a number of their unowned directories should be covered by fixing perl-DBI. This seems to be fixed in RHEL5, but it isn't in RHEL4(.5).
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The last planned update of RHEL-4 will be focused on performance and security bugs only. This should be fixed in next release.