Bug 950 - Symbolic links are sometimes stored in RPMs with wrongs mode
Summary: Symbolic links are sometimes stored in RPMs with wrongs mode
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 528
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 5.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: David Lawrence
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Reported: 1999-01-24 21:46 UTC by Ziv, Alon
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-02-16 22:17:30 UTC
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Description Ziv, Alon 1999-01-24 21:46:03 UTC 
In some packages of the Apollo release, there are symbolic
links which RPM thinks should have mode lrwxr-xr-x (despite
the fact that *every* symlink *always* has mode lrwxrwxrwx).
See e.g. `/usr/bin/X11' in package `filesystem'.

Fix:
In build/files.c:add_file(), don't reset the file's mode if
it is a symlink (i.e., if S_ISLNK(p->statbuf)).  Also, in
lib/verify.c:rpmVerifyFile(), don't verify the file's mode
it it is a symlink.
Comment 1 Aleksey Nogin 1999-01-26 03:43:59 UTC 
This is a duplicate of #528, #533 and #535
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 1999-02-16 22:17:59 UTC 
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 528 ***
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