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Bug 483235

Summary: rpm -e fails on package with many files
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Petr Sklenar <psklenar>
Component: rpmAssignee: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 5.4CC: atodorov, ffesti
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Description Petr Sklenar 2009-01-30 12:27:13 UTC 
Created attachment 330460 [details]
huge dir with many files

Description of problem:
there is 129936 files in tree, you can built it and install it, but it cannot be uninstalled

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.4.2.3-9.el5
+ rhel4 too

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpmbuild -ba huge-dir-tree.spec
2. rpm -Uvh huge-dir-tree.rpm
3. rpm -e huge-dir-tree
  
Actual results:
rpmbuild + install PASS

# rpm -e huge-dir-tree
On rhel5 it writes : memory alloc (8 bytes) returned NULL.
On rhel4 it writes : memory alloc (3455160288 bytes) returned NULL.

Expected results:
# rpm -e huge-dir-tree
..successfully erased

Additional info:
there is similar bug for rpmbuild
bug 438675
bug 462539
..but when it is possible to create a built , it has to be erased
Comment 1 Florian Festi 2009-09-02 13:47:41 UTC 
Reason for this is non linear run time and memory usage for erases/updates for large number of files. This already got fixed upstream. As these fixes require rewriting large parts of the file (conflict) handling they are not acceptable for backporting. Sorry.