Iain, I had the same problem. I fixed it with an RPM macro, but I agree with your point - I don't think RPM packages that are included in the distro should be touching anything in /usr/local.
Personally, I'm not surprised with Red Hat's response, about 6 years ago I found a bug with some perl script included in an update (it performed some cron task). A google search found many, many other RHEL users who encountered the same bug, and many of them posted patches to fix the bug, too. A bug report was filed with Red Hat, but the bug was never fixed, despite many users having provided a fix on the web. It eventually was closed when then next release of RHEL came out. Prentice On 07/06/2011 05:26 AM, Iain Morrison wrote: > Dear list, > I submitted a Bugzilla report on our issue with the latest perl update > [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717565] but RedHat have > responded with > > "This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for > inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. > Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated > in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to > address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to > ask your support representative to propose this request, if > appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat > Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an > exception in the current release, please ask your support > representative." > > Is this par for the course? The perl package is trying to chown folders > in /usr/local which I don't think it should be touching, and this is > stopping installation on any machines that don't have root rw access to > /usr/local/. Is this not a bug? > > [I know I can allow root rw access, apply the patches and remove rw > access but that isn't the point.] > > We have an Academic subscription so don't have a support representative. > Is there anything else I can do? It looks like this relatively simple > installer bug is never going to be fixed. > > I'm a bit disappointed with the RedHat response. > > thanks > > iain > _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
