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 the package. Another problem occurs when removing the package because orphaned directories will remaining. | $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/libstdc++.a | file /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2 is not owned by any package | libstdc++-devel-3.2-1 (Please visit the given URL for a complete list of affected directories) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libstdc++-devel-3.2-1 How Reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 0. make a minimal installation 1. umask 077 2. make sure that libstdc++-devel is uninstalled completely (rm -rf /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2) 3. rpm -U libstdc++-devel-3.2-1.i386.rpm 4. ls -l /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2 5. try to use the programs/scripts/libraries/data of the package as non-root user 6. rpm -e libstdc++-devel-3.2-1 Actual Results: * at 4: | drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Sep 13 21:55 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2 * files can not be found/read at 5 and * /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2 still exists after 6.
I believe this is fixed in contemporary GCC.