[Kolab-devel] Re: beware of obmtool

[Thomas Lotterer]

Re Martin,

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004, Martin Konold wrote:
> obmtool lacks efficient protection for existing rpm databases. I think
> it should check that it is really dealing with the correct rpm.
> 
can you please provide some more information regarding this problem?
The obmtool is always calling rpm using an absolute path so it surely
uses the rpm which is correct for a given instance. What are you doing
in your particular case - upgrading (especially across major OpenPKG
releases), installing from scratch (the prompt suggests the latter but
obmtool doesn't care about PWD), installing with /etc/passwd already
setup (or leftover from a previous run) ... The tool does not protect an
existing database, it's consuming it.

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