Massive fallout from missing libssl.so.7 et al

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Sat Jan 17 21:02:55 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 21:04 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Tomas Mraz wrote:
> > Now this is really weird - it seems that there are the old scriptlets
> > from 0.9.8j-1.fc11 in the rpm database as well. How could that happen?
> 
> The postuninstall scriptlet from the old package is run during upgrades.
> (It's run AFTER the postinstall scriptlet of the new one. RPM installs the
> new package, then removes the old one. Of course only the files which are
> not in the new package are removed. But the postun scriptlet is run.)

That could make sense. In case the old package uninstalled is the 0.9.8g
version it will probably cause the %postun ldconfig to remove the
symlink. I've added a triggerpostun scriptlet to reinstate the symlinks
if they are missing to openssl-0.9.8j-5.fc11.
-- 
Tomas Mraz
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                                              Turkish proverb




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