From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; cs-CZ; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080325 Fedora/2.0.0.13-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.13 Description of problem: The %post scriptlet of the openmpi package creates invalid symbolic links, because it assumes that the man pages are gzipped. But they aren't. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openmpi-1.2.3-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ls -l /etc/alternatives/mpi-run-man 2. ls -l /etc/alternatives/mpi-exec-man Actual Results: In the spec file of openmpi-*.src.rpm you can see: --slave %{_mandir}/man1/mpirun.1.gz mpi-run-man \ %{_datadir}/%{mpidir}/man/man1/mpirun.1.gz \ --slave %{_mandir}/man1/mpiexec.1.gz mpi-exec-man \ %{_datadir}/%{mpidir}/man/man1/orterun.1.gz Expected Results: In the spec file of openmpi-*.src.rpm you can see: --slave %{_mandir}/man1/mpirun.1.gz mpi-run-man \ %{_datadir}/%{mpidir}/man/man1/mpirun.1 \ --slave %{_mandir}/man1/mpiexec.1.gz mpi-exec-man \ %{_datadir}/%{mpidir}/man/man1/orterun.1 Additional info:
There are 2 mistakes in Expected Results. The man pages are not gzipped, so symbolic links must not pretend to be gzipped. --slave %{_mandir}/man1/mpirun.1 mpi-run-man \ %{_datadir}/%{mpidir}/man/man1/mpirun.1 \ --slave %{_mandir}/man1/mpiexec.1 mpi-exec-man \ %{_datadir}/%{mpidir}/man/man1/orterun.1
Other solution of this problem would be to gzip those man pages and do not modify the scriptlet.
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The current openmpi update no longer uses the alternatives system at all, and therefore no man page links, and so this problem is no longer a problem.