Re: rpm-5.4.10-22.i686 loops forever when installing ntpd-4.2.6p5-5.i686.rpm

2012-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Oct 22, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: > > On Oct 22, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > >> On 10/22/2012 05:58 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: >>> For a suspected database error in the Conflictname index, >>> then comparing the outputs with >>> >>> /usr/lib/rpm/macros:%_dbi_conf

Re: rpm-5.4.10-22.i686 loops forever when installing ntpd-4.2.6p5-5.i686.rpm

2012-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Oct 22, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 10/22/2012 05:58 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: >> For a suspected database error in the Conflictname index, >> then comparing the outputs with >> >> /usr/lib/rpm/macros:%_dbi_config_3_Conflictname %{_dbi_btconfig} >> %{?_bt_dupsort} debug

Re: rpm-5.4.10-22.i686 loops forever when installing ntpd-4.2.6p5-5.i686.rpm

2012-10-22 Thread Elan Ruusamäe
On 10/22/2012 05:58 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: For a suspected database error in the Conflictname index, then comparing the outputs with /usr/lib/rpm/macros:%_dbi_config_3_Conflictname %{_dbi_btconfig} %{?_bt_dupsort} debug may be informative. The access patterns SHOULD be similar. first

Re: rpm-5.4.10-22.i686 loops forever when installing ntpd-4.2.6p5-5.i686.rpm

2012-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Oct 22, 2012, at 4:07 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > > ps: i have no idea who is mancoosi, or what he identified, you should had > provided link to that, not assume everybody knows your friends ;-) Mancoosi was a 3y EU funded research project http://mancoosi.org One of the difference

Re: rpm-5.4.10-22.i686 loops forever when installing ntpd-4.2.6p5-5.i686.rpm

2012-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Oct 22, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 22.10.2012 04:46, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: >> There are too may possible causes to hazard a guess, including >> a well documented difference in behavior detected by Mancoosi years >> ago, and also identifying precisely what metadata (and >> w

Re: rpm-5.4.10-22.i686 loops forever when installing ntpd-4.2.6p5-5.i686.rpm

2012-10-22 Thread Elan Ruusamäe
On 22.10.2012 04:46, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: There are too may possible causes to hazard a guess, including a well documented difference in behavior detected by Mancoosi years ago, and also identifying precisely what metadata (and what rpm version was used to build all the packages). rpm version

Re: rpm5 package verification and md5sum of config files

2012-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Oct 22, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Jan Rękorajski wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: > >> >> On Oct 22, 2012, at 6:44 AM, Jan Rękorajski wrote: >> >>> >>> Rebuilding ~8500 packages is not an option, unfortunately :( >>> >> >> Um … you managed to *build* ~8500 packages using a b

Re: rpm5 package verification and md5sum of config files

2012-10-22 Thread Jan Rękorajski
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: > > On Oct 22, 2012, at 6:44 AM, Jan Rękorajski wrote: > > > > > Rebuilding ~8500 packages is not an option, unfortunately :( > > > > Um … you managed to *build* ~8500 packages using a buggy > rpmbuild in rpm-5.4.10. > > What makes *rebuilding* har

Re: rpm5 package verification and md5sum of config files

2012-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Oct 22, 2012, at 6:44 AM, Jan Rękorajski wrote: > > Rebuilding ~8500 packages is not an option, unfortunately :( > Um … you managed to *build* ~8500 packages using a buggy rpmbuild in rpm-5.4.10. What makes *rebuilding* harder than building? Note that not all 8500 packages are affected (o

Re: rpm5 package verification and md5sum of config files

2012-10-22 Thread Adam Osuchowski
Jan Rękorajski wrote: > Quick question, does passing '--nohmacs' option give the same effect as > your patch to lib/verify.c? In that case we could just make it default > and add '--hmacs' option. No. --nohmacs option disables checking hmac entirely even for truly modified files (with hmac verify

Re: rpm5 package verification and md5sum of config files

2012-10-22 Thread Jan Rękorajski
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Adam Osuchowski wrote: > Jan Rękorajski wrote: > > I'm afraid your patch doesn't work for me, I'm still getting bad md5 > > for config files: > > > > $ rpm -V wget > > ..5. c /etc/wgetrc > > > > Am I missing something? > > Ok, I made investigation one more time and pro

Re: rpm-5.4.10-22.i686 loops forever when installing ntpd-4.2.6p5-5.i686.rpm

2012-10-22 Thread Elan Ruusamäe
On 22.10.2012 04:46, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: On Oct 21, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: NO D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3 NO ^CD: Exiting on signal(0x2) … This report does nothing except document the existence. that's how it starts