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Bug 528

Summary:	symlink data in RPM for this package broken
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Joe Harrington <jhmail>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Version:	5.2	CC:	aleksey, alonz, jhmail
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Description Joe Harrington 1998-12-19 00:20:21 UTC

rpm -v flags mode discrepancies on many symlinks.  They are
mode 755 or 644 in the package but get installed mode 777
(and it is impossible to change them to any other mode with
chmod).

ncurses-4.2-10
.M......   /usr/lib/libform.so.4
.M......   /usr/lib/libmenu.so.4
.M......   /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4
.M......   /usr/lib/libpanel.so.4

Comment 1 Derek Tattersall 1998-12-21 15:35:59 UTC

This bug, and the next several are really rpm anomalies, as info chmod
indicates that symlinks always have permissions of 777 and that when
one
attempts to chmod a symlink the underlying file's permissions are
changed.

Comment 2 Derek Tattersall 1998-12-21 15:36:59 UTC

see bug 528

Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 1999-01-12 15:41:59 UTC

Fixed in recent versions of rpm-2.5.x/rpm-2.90.x.

Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 1999-02-16 22:17:59 UTC

*** Bug 950 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

In some packages of the Apollo release, there are symbolic
links which RPM thinks should have mode lrwxr-xr-x (despite
the fact that *every* symlink *always* has mode lrwxrwxrwx).
See e.g. `/usr/bin/X11' in package `filesystem'.

Fix:
In build/files.c:add_file(), don't reset the file's mode if
it is a symlink (i.e., if S_ISLNK(p->statbuf)).  Also, in
lib/verify.c:rpmVerifyFile(), don't verify the file's mode
it it is a symlink.


------- Additional Comments From ayn2  01/25/99 22:43 -------
This is a duplicate of #528, #533 and #535

Comment 5 openshift-github-bot 2015-03-27 19:07:49 UTC

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/openshift/origin

https://github.com/openshift/origin/commit/0f50aa4f547e63ca059d45cc3be0d9a1b621efa9
Issue #333, #528 - add number to builds