Description of Problem: Because this package contains unowned directories, they will be created with the current umask. When having restrictive administrator settings (umask 077) ordinary user will not have access to them and can not use them. Another problem occurs when removing packages. Then orphaned directories are remaining. | $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/RPM2 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/RPM2/RPM2.bs | file /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/RPM2 is not owned by any package | perl-RPM2-0.44-4 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): perl-RPM2-0.44-4 How Reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. umask 077 2. make sure that perl-RPM2 is uninstalled completely (rm -rf /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/RPM2) 3. rpm -U perl-RPM2-0.44-4.* 4. ls -l /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/RPM2 5. start perl script using this module 6. rpm -e perl-RPM2-0.44-4 Actual Results: | drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Sep 13 15:25 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/RPM2 at 4; script can not find package at 5 and /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/RPM2 still exists after 6. Additional Information: When adding | for i in installarchlib vendorlib; do | eval $(perl "-V:$i") | dir=$(eval echo \$$i) | | echo "%exclude %dir ${dir}" | find "${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}${dir}" -type d -mindepth 1 ! -empty -print | \ | sed "s@^$RPM_BUILD_ROOT@%dir @g" | done | sort -u >> %{modname}-%{version}-filelist to the file-finding section in the spec-file, this class of bugs can be fixed for all perl-XXX packages.
Spec has not been rewritten to modern perl packaging standards, so likely still affected.
perl-RPM2 is no longer shipped in any currently maintained Fedora releases. Closing.
Re-opening - there's a request to add this back into extras (bug #184530), but I want to make sure this bug is fixed first.
Looks like it was fixed in review of this package.