[#SFOS-1145] Unowned RPMs found in $SFHOME/lib after upgrades -from older packages

SmartFrog

Unowned RPMs found in $SFHOME/lib after upgrades -from older packages

Created: 13/Mar/09 12:16 PM (GMT) Updated: 30/Mar/09 05:11 PM (BST)

Component/s:

release build

Affects Version/s:

3.17.010

Fix Version/s:

3.17.010

Time Tracking:

Not Specified

Environment:

Centos 5.2 VM image -only ever had RPMs installed via the ant targets release/install-remote-rpms

Compatibility:

unknown

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This is something I've just seen : unowned files in $SFHOME/lib. The artifacts are dependent libraries of older RPMs. libraries that were replaced by newer versioned artifacts (With different numbers) in later versions.

Test
1. log in to the machine
2. run rpm -qf /opt/smartfrog/lib *.jar

Look for the string " is not owned by any package", as in:

smartfrog-velocity-3.17.005dev-1.el4
smartfrog-xml-3.17.005dev-1.el4
file /opt/smartfrog/lib/xercesImpl-2.6.2.jar is not owned by any package
smartfrog-xml-3.17.005dev-1.el4
smartfrog-xml-3.17.005dev-1.el4
smartfrog-hadoop-3.17.005dev-1.el4
file /opt/smartfrog/lib/xmlParserAPIs-2.6.2.jar is not owned by any package

we could automate a test for this.

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Steve Loughran added a comment - 13/Mar/09 12:17 PM (GMT)

What are the consequences of this problem?
* old JARs remain on the classpath
* strange classpath errors

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Steve Loughran added a comment - 30/Mar/09 05:11 PM (BST)

This is now checked for in our install scripts; I believe it was caused by changing the artifact list without changing the RPM number.