Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 49800
glibc-common won't install on clean system
Last modified: 2016-11-24 10:14:34 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC) Description of problem: I updated my mirror of RH 7.0 for alpha with glibc-common-2.2-12 and glibc-2.2-12. Tried to install from that updated mirror onto clean system. Error message in /tmp/install.log: Installing glibc-common. unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Missing hard link Running rpm -i glibc-common will install the package after the install, but then I have to remove and reinstall all packages that couldn't install properly because they needed glibc-common. This includes all packages that are configured by a perl script, because perl can't set the locale. Very annoying. Could glibc-common be rebuilt so that it will install on a clean system? How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Mirror RH 7.0 for alpha 2. Incorporate updates from 'updates' tree into 'Redhat/RPMS' tree, including update to glibc-2.2-12 and glibc-common-2.2-12. 3. Try installation off the updated 'RedHat/RPMS' tree. Actual Results: glibc-common didn't install. Subsequent packages didn't install properly. Expected Results: glibc-common should install on clean system. Additional info:
It is a rpm issue when there are hardlinks where some of the links are present in one %lang(), others in other %lang() and one of those languages is not selected for install. You can get around this by forcing %_install_langs all, or by using some more recent glibc (such as the one from 7.1 distribution - highly recommended).