Description of problem: When installing with --excludedocs there are errors caused by missing files. Version: glibc-devel-2.10.1-2.i586 How reproducible: Always Steps to reproduce: 1) rpm -ihv --excludedocs glibc-devel-2.10.1-2.i586 or: - use %packages --excludedocs in kickstart - enable %_excludedocs macro in RPM Expected results: Package is installed without errors Actual results: Error(s): Installing glibc-devel-2.10.1-2.i586 install-info: No such file or directory for /usr/share/info/libc.info.gz Additional info: This bug is automatically filed with python-bugzilla and component assignment may be incorrect.
This does not preclude installation since the error is ignored.
It is a problem for QE since we expect clean output from installation. You can either redirect error messages to /dev/null or better use something like: [ -f /.../file.info.gz ] && install-info ....
What is QE and why does it do that?
QE == Quality Engineering We want clean logs because otherwise people think there are errors with their installation. This is particularly true for RHEL products but clean logs is always a nice thing to have. Please also see this thread: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2009-August/msg00028.html As far as I can tell folks generally agree that this needs to be fixed in one way or another.
Fixed in 2.10.90-13.