Bug 8534

Summary:

rpmi -i --force results in package duplication in some cases

Product:

Sisyphus

Reporter:

Mikhail Zabaluev <mhz>

Component:

rpm

Assignee:

placeholder <placeholder>

Status:

NEW ---

QA Contact:

qa-sisyphus

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

at, glebfm, imz, ldv, mike, n3npq, placeholder, vt

Version:

unstable

Hardware:

all

OS:

Linux

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Output of rpmi -ivv --force --justdb pkg-config-0.20-alt2.pentium4.rpm	none

Description Mikhail Zabaluev 2005-11-21 14:28:56 MSK

The documentation states that --force is a shorthand for --replacefiles
--replacepkgs --oldpackage.

However, installing a package over the same, but different package(1) with
--force leads to duplicate package entries in the rpm database.

(1) I got this result when a package had the same name, version, release, and
epoch, but differed in other fields, such as Provides. Installing a package over
itself doesn't have this effect.

The obvious workaround to it is: Don't do that!

Comment 1 Mikhail Zabaluev 2005-11-21 14:36:58 MSK

Created attachment 1260 [details]
Output of rpmi -ivv --force --justdb pkg-config-0.20-alt2.pentium4.rpm

Comment 2 Dmitry V. Levin 2005-11-21 20:57:40 MSK

Are you talking about rpm >= 4.0.4-alt53?
I'm unable to reproduce this behavior.

BTW, changes in rpm-4.0.4-alt53 make --force option less needed than before,
because -U and -F options now take build dates into account.

Comment 3 Mikhail Zabaluev 2005-11-22 00:10:05 MSK

4.0.4-alt53 it is.

Comment 4 Michael Shigorin 2009-08-15 14:23:07 MSD

(In reply to comment #0)
> The obvious workaround to it is: Don't do that!
I'd say WORKSFORME then.

Comment 5 Jeff Johnson 2012-01-02 19:23:48 MSK

tracked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/rpm/+bug/910871