Bug 427874 - util-linux-ng gets "excess command line argument" on update
Summary: util-linux-ng gets "excess command line argument" on update
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: util-linux-ng
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Karel Zak
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-07 23:17 UTC by Michal Jaegermann
Modified: 2008-02-13 05:09 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: 2.13.1-1.fc8
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-02-13 05:09:04 UTC
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2008-01-07 23:17:03 UTC
Description of problem:

On the last update I got on some machine:

  Updating  : util-linux-ng                ####################### [11/42]
install-info: excess command line argument `/usr/share/info/dir'

'rpm -q --scripts util-linux-ng' reveals the following lines:

/sbin/install-info /usr/share/info/ipc.info* /usr/share/info/dir
/sbin/install-info --del /usr/share/info/ipc.info* /usr/share/info/dir

The problem is that, likely after some past troubles on updates,
there are there both /usr/share/info/ipc.info and
/usr/share/info/ipc.info.gz while that script clearly expects only the
later.  The same "excess" would happen if ipc.info.gz would split
into a number of smaller files.

Results are not pretty although removing all of that and
reinstalling util-linux-ng fixes things up.  If we really want to
rely on that that /usr/share/info/ipc.info* expands to one name then
maybe an preinstallation part of a package script should start with

   rm -f /usr/share/info/ipc.info*

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
util-linux-ng-2.13-3.2.fc8

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2008-01-18 23:56:49 UTC
util-linux-ng-2.13.1-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update util-linux-ng'

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-02-13 05:09:01 UTC
util-linux-ng-2.13.1-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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