I did the following: [mike@mlg-12-0 mike]$ rpm -q bind package bind is not installed [mike@mlg-12-0 mike]$ rpm -q bind-utils bind-utils-8.2.1-7 [mike@mlg-12-0 mike]$ rpm -q bind-devel package bind-devel is not installed[mike@mlg-12-0 mike]$ /bin/su Password: rpm -Fvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/bind-8.2.2_P3-1.i386.rpm \ ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/bind-devel-8.2.2_P3-1.i386.rpm \ ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/bind-utils-8.2.2_P3-1.i386.rpm Retrieving ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/bind-8.2.2_P3-1.i386.rpm Retrieving ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/bind-devel-8.2.2_P3-1.i386.rpm Retrieving ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/bind-utils-8.2.2_P3-1.i386.rpm bind ################################################## bind-devel ################################################## bind-utils ################################################## [root@mlg-12-0 mike]# rpm -q bind bind-8.2.2_P3-1 As I read rpm(8), bind and bind-devel should not have been installed.
I cannot reproduce this bug.