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? >> >> >> -- >> 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 -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI LMSS Group __________________________________________________