weird file package relationship

Discussion:

Hiren Patel

2007-06-29 10:36:56 UTC

hi, i have some weird output from rpm, /usr/lib/sa/sa1 claims to be from
a package that does not list its output when queried for its files.
what could have caused this? it doesn't look normal?

rpm -q --qf "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n" -f /usr/lib/sa/sa1
sysstat-5.0.5-15.0.1.el4.x86_64

rpm -ql sysstat-5.0.5-15.0.1.el4.x86_64 |grep 'sa1'
/usr/lib64/sa/sa1
/usr/share/man/man8/sa1.8.gz
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Tony Earnshaw

2007-06-29 11:11:15 UTC

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Post by Hiren Patel
hi, i have some weird output from rpm, /usr/lib/sa/sa1 claims to be from
a package that does not list its output when queried for its files.
what could have caused this? it doesn't look normal?
rpm -q --qf "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n" -f /usr/lib/sa/sa1
sysstat-5.0.5-15.0.1.el4.x86_64
rpm -ql sysstat-5.0.5-15.0.1.el4.x86_64 |grep 'sa1'
/usr/lib64/sa/sa1
/usr/share/man/man8/sa1.8.gz

Perhaps /usr/lib/sa/sa1 is a symlink made by a %post script?

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Hiren Patel

2007-06-29 11:31:42 UTC

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sorry for the noise they appear to be hard links.

stat /usr/lib/sa/sa1
File: `/usr/lib/sa/sa1'
Size: 286 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 806h/2054d Inode: 5472258 Links: 1

stat /usr/lib64/sa/sa1
File: `/usr/lib64/sa/sa1'
Size: 286 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 806h/2054d Inode: 5472258 Links: 1

i would have thought though that the links count would be 2.

Post by Tony Earnshaw

Perhaps /usr/lib/sa/sa1 is a symlink made by a %post script?
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Bob Proulx

2007-06-30 17:10:40 UTC

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Running this might be interesting. Look to see if the post install
script does something with those files outside of rpm's database.

rpm -q --scripts -f /usr/lib/sa/sa1

Bob

Jon Stanley

2007-06-30 17:47:30 UTC

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The reason for this is that both the x86_64 and i386 versions of sysstat
are installed - I just did this on a CentOS box to verify - it didn't
have any sysstat on it, and then I did a 'yum install sysstat', and it
wanted to install both the i386 and x86_64 versions, and the i386 one
owns /usr/lib/sa/sa1, and x86_64 owns the /usr/lib64 version of the same
thing.

[***@monster yum.repos.d]$ rpm -q --queryformat
'%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' sysstat
sysstat-5.0.5-15.0.1.el4.x86_64
sysstat-5.0.5-14.rhel4.i386

Post by Hiren Patel
hi, i have some weird output from rpm, /usr/lib/sa/sa1 claims to be from
a package that does not list its output when queried for its files.
what could have caused this? it doesn't look normal?
rpm -q --qf "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n"
-f /usr/lib/sa/sa1
sysstat-5.0.5-15.0.1.el4.x86_64
rpm -ql sysstat-5.0.5-15.0.1.el4.x86_64 |grep 'sa1'
/usr/lib64/sa/sa1
/usr/share/man/man8/sa1.8.gz