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Description of problem:
When an uninstalled package is verified with yum the RHEL6 version reported all files as missing, while the RHEL7 version reports nothing and exit with 0.
It looks like an intention and the new behaviour quite make sense, but it changes the user experience.
Or is it a bug in RHEL6?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.9.1.3-7.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.0 Alpha1 (Maipo)
# rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.9.1.3-7.el7.x86_64
# 
# rpm -q zsh
package zsh is not installed
# rpm --verify -p zsh-4.3.17-1.el7.x86_64.rpm 
# echo $?
0
# 

  
Actual results:
the verify exit with 0

Expected results:
# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago)
# rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.8.0-19.el6.x86_64
# 
# rpm -q zsh
package zsh is not installed
# rpm --verify -p zsh-4.3.10-4.1.el6.x86_64.rpm 
warning: zsh-4.3.10-4.1.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID fd431d51: NOKEY
missing     /bin/zsh
missing   c /etc/skel/.zshrc

<SNIP>

missing     /usr/share/zsh/site-functions
# echo $?
1
#

Good catch, thanks. This is actually an unintended change (ie in other words a regression) in rpm >= 4.9.x: verifying files against the original package can be sometimes useful. Fixed upstream now.

Fixed in rpm-4.10.1-1.el7.

This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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