From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7 i686; Nav) Description of problem: I have a chrooted build environment, made with RH 7.1 packages, including rpm 4.0.2-8. I did a minimal update to the new beta versions of: popt, rpm, glibc and glibc-common bash-2.04: rpm -Uvh popt-1.6.3-0.79.i386.rpm rpm-4.0.3-0.79.rpm glibc-2.2.3-19.i386.rpm glibc-common-2.2.3-19.i386.rpm Everything went fairly well until it did the actual 'rpm' upgrade. Then, it warned that it was making Basenames.rpmnew, Conflictname.rpmnew, Group.rpmnew, Name.rpmnew, Packages.rpmnew Providename.rpmnew, Requirename.rpmnew and Triggername.rpmnew Unfortunately, those files weren't actually created. rpm -q rpm shows the version as 4.0.3-0.79, and rpm -qa shows the correctly installed RPMs. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a chrooted build environment with these packages: filesystem, basesystem, mktemp, libtermcap, rootfiles, info, gawk, db1, zlib, db2, diffutils, shadow-utils, gdbm, glibc-common, popt, setup, termcap, bash, ncurses, fileutils, textutils, bzip2, db3, binutils, mount, dev, perl, glibc, rpm. [All from original 7.1 distribution, no updates) with arguments: -ivh --root=CHROOTDIR 2. chroot CHROOTDIR /bin/bash 3. rpm -Uvh popt-1.6.3-0.79.i386.rpm rpm-4.0.3-0.79.rpm glibc-2.2.3-19.i386.rpm glibc-common-2.2.3-19.i386.rpm 4. /bin/ls -l /var/lib/rpm/*rpmnew Actual Results: All worked fine, got the warning messages stated in the summary about creating the .rpmnew files in /var/lib/rpm/. They aren't there. Expected Results: I'd expect to have them, since it warned me. Either it shouldn't warn me, or worse, it didn't create them. Additional info: I can send a copy of the build environment .tgz file (pre-upgrade), it's 28mb, so a little larger than i'm comfortable with just attaching.
Yes, there's an error message, but no .rpmnew files, as these files are marked %ghost. The error message will eventually be conditioned on %ghost correctly, but, since %ghost semantics are still changing at the moment, there's gonna be more than just the error message to fix. Deferred until then