Bug 705342 - rpm -ivh doesn't follow redirects (302) when installing from http source
Summary: rpm -ivh doesn't follow redirects (302) when installing from http source
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rpm
Version: 5.7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Panu Matilainen
QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List
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: 705292 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-05-17 12:28 UTC by Miroslav Vadkerti
Modified: 2011-08-23 07:05 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-08-23 07:05:15 UTC
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Description Miroslav Vadkerti 2011-05-17 12:28:25 UTC 
Description of problem:
# rpm -ivh  http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/ia64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
error: skipping http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/ia64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
warning: u 0x1005efe8 ctrl 0x1078d338 nrefs != 0 (download.fedoraproject.org http)

When I download the package via wget we can see the location is 302:
# wget  http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
...
Connecting to download.fedoraproject.org|66.35.62.166|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 FOUND
...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.4.2.3-22.el5
rpm-build-4.4.2.3-22.el5
rpm-devel-4.4.2.3-22.el5
rpm-devel-4.4.2.3-22.el5
rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-22.el5
rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-22.el5
rpm-python-4.4.2.3-22.el5

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -ivh  http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

Actual results:
Warning is displayed and installation fails

Expected results:
Installation succeeds for redirected locations

Notes:
This works in RHEL6/F14
Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2011-05-25 05:11:46 UTC 
*** Bug 705292 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2011-05-25 05:55:20 UTC 
This works in newer versions because they use curl for fetching remote items instead of the rather limited internal ftp/http implementation which rpm 4.4.x has.

Redirect support would be a new feature and is not going to be added at this point to an otherwise dead-end codebase. A more meaningful error message in case of redirects could be considered.
Comment 3 Panu Matilainen 2011-08-23 06:45:19 UTC 
devel_nack, see comment #2, and upon closer inspection even a more meaningful error message is not reasonably achievable as the error reporting path is rather fundamentally broken in this case and changing that would risk memory leaks + other breakage due to changes fixing it would require.
Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2011-08-23 07:05:15 UTC 
Development Management has reviewed and declined this request.  You may appeal
this decision by reopening this request.
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