Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 460563
"rpm --dump" shows size=0
Last modified: 2013-03-07 04:45:50 EST
Description of problem: if file has size=1 then second field of "rpm --dump" shows size=0 priority = lower then low Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): all # rpm -q rpm rpm-4.4.2.3-3.el5 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: # rpm -ql rpm --dump | grep __db.001 /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 0 1194852312 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e 0100644 rpm rpm 1 0 0 X # ll /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 2008-08-28 18:39 /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 Actual results: --dump shows size of /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 zero Expected results: --dump shows size of /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 is 1 # rpm -ql rpm --dump | grep __db.001 /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 1 1194852312 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e 0100644 rpm rpm 1 0 0 X Additional info: found during testing bug 250207
/var/lib/rpm/* files are %ghost files, ie they are not created by installing the package. The size recorded in headers for %ghosts depends on what was present at build time, typically they are zero-length files created by running "touch", which is the case here. And as 'rpm -ql' shows the file data from headers, not filesystems, zero size is what you get. So this is not actually a bug but expected behavior for %ghost files.