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Bug 484094

Summary:	rpm -e fails on package with many files
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Petr Sklenar <psklenar>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.8	CC:	ohudlick, redhat-bugzilla, zarg
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Clone Of:	483235	Environment:
Last Closed:	2010-02-04 09:16:33 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	483235
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Description Petr Sklenar 2009-02-04 18:26:04 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #483235 +++

Created an attachment (id=330460)
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 4 Panu Matilainen 2010-02-04 09:16:33 UTC

Like bug 483235, this is not fixable in RHEL 4/5, but rpm in RHEL 6 wont have this problem.

Comment 5 Panu Matilainen 2010-02-04 09:17:30 UTC

*** Bug 185694 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***