OK, I have verified that updating rpm (and popt) on the older systems 
does indeed make this problem go away.
I have looked at the various rpm changelog, and I don't see any new 
features that are going to break anything.  So, I have put the new rpm 
and popt from 5.4 into the testing area along with cups.

   yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update rpm\*

Troy

Troy J Dawson wrote:
> I believe you are right.  As I look at the various files that this 
> affects, they are those files that are now marked as "%config(noreplace)"
> Looking through the changelog this is because of this bugzilla bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474769
> 
> Now I have to figure out why this only affects older systems.
> 
> I've done this update on a machine with a freshly installed cups and it 
> still is behaving the same say.
> I was thinking it was a prelink problem, but I'm to sure about that.
> ... still looking.
> 
> Troy
> 
> Kinzel, David wrote:
>> I'm guessing these specific ones are caused by the spec file now containing:
>>
>> %config(noreplace) %{_docdir}/cups-%{version}/images
>>
>> Infact, it looks like all of /usr/share/cups* is now definied as "config noreplace"
>>
>> I looked at cups-1.3.7-8.el5_3.4.src.rpm and it is not definied the same as as in -11.el5_4.3 -- in the former they appear to be listed off as just regular files.
>>
>> PS: A bit off topic - but it seems only a few emails from this list actually hit my mailbox -- is this happening to anyone else?
>>
>>
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>> David Kinzel | [log in to unmask] | 403-296-4526
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mailling list for Scientific Linux users worldwide [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Troy Dawson
>> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:52 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: TESTING - cups for SL5
>>
>> Hello,
>> We're having a bit of problem with the latest errata for cups.
>>
>> It compiles fine, and as far as I can tell it's the same as RedHat's,
>> The problem is that on older versions of SL (5.0, 5.1 and 5.2), when you
>> update it you get the following errors, well, much more than these,
>> these are just an example.
>>
>> ...
>> usr/share/doc/cups-1.3.7/he/images/button-restart-job.gif.rpmnew
>> warning: /usr/share/doc/cups-1.3.7/he/images/button-save-changes.gif
>> created as
>> /usr/share/doc/cups-1.3.7/he/images/button-save-changes.gif.rpmnew
>> warning: /usr/share/doc/cups-1.3.7/he/images/button-search.gif created
>> as /usr/share/doc/cups-1.3.7/he/images/button-search.gif.rpmnew
>> ...
>> warning: /usr/share/doc/cups-1.3.7/help/api-cups.html created as
>> /usr/share/doc/cups-1.3.7/help/api-cups.html.rpmnew
>> warning: /usr/share/doc/cups-1.3.7/help/api-filedir.html created as
>> /usr/share/doc/cups-1.3.7/help/api-filedir.html.rpmnew
>> ...
>>
>> We've even tried using the rpm's straight from RedHat, and we get the
>> same error's, so we don't think it is our packages.
>> We don't get these errors on SL 5.4 or 5.3, or on a up to date RedHat
>> system.  So we think there is some strange dependancy that we're missing.
>> Does anyone have any idea what we're missing on our older systems.  I
>> don't dare push this errata out yet until we get this figured out.
>>
>> To test or update
>>
>> SL5
>> -------
>>
>>       yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update cups\*
>>
>> or you can download rpm's by hand at
>>
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/i386/cups/
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/cups/
>>
>> Thanks
>> Troy Dawson


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