Description of problem: - glibc-common owns the directory /usr/lib/locale which is already owned by the filesystem package (violation against the packaging guidelines for directory ownership) rpm -qf /usr/lib/locale filesystem-2.4.30-2.fc12.i686 glibc-common-2.11.2-1.i686 - glibc-common includes this directory with a different set of permissions than the filesystem package glibc-common: 755 filesystem: 555 and so I have stumbled over the problem by doing: rpm -V filesystem .M....... /usr/lib/locale Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): glibc-common-2.11.2-1.i686 How reproducible: 100% Additional info: - the following commit fixed the problem in F13 by removing /usr/lib/locale from the %files section of glibc.spec http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/glibc/F-13/glibc.spec?r1=1.430&r2=1.431&view=patch
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 569414 ***