id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 232 Owner of symbolic links is not restored correctly. enakai Bruno Cornec "I have restored RHEL5.1 with mondo-2.2.4-1.rhel5 and compared ""rpm -Va"" results taken before and after the restoration. And I found that ower user and group of symbolic links originally different from root.root was changed to root.root. {{{ # diff node01.2008011663155/rpm-Va node01.2008011684617/rpm-Va 1218a1219,1225 > .....UG. /usr/bin/rpmdb > .....UG. /usr/bin/rpmquery > .....UG. /usr/bin/rpmsign > .....UG. /usr/bin/rpmverify > .....UG. /usr/lib/rpm/rpme > .....UG. /usr/lib/rpm/rpmu > .....UG. /usr/lib/rpm/rpmv }}} These are all symbolic links to another file, for example; {{{ # ls -l /usr/bin/rpmdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 rpm rpm 15 Jan 16 17:29 /usr/bin/rpmdb -> ../lib/rpm/rpmd # ls -l /usr/bin/rpmdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 16 17:29 /usr/bin/rpmdb -> ../lib/rpm/rpmd }}} As owners of linked ""real"" files were not modified, there's probably no practical issue. But I think, if possible, it's better to fix it. (Sorry for that I have no idea how to fix it.) RPMs I used are as below; {{{ afio-2.4.7-1.x86_64.rpm buffer-1.19-1.x86_64.rpm mindi-1.2.4-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm mindi-busybox-1.2.2-3.rhel5.x86_64.rpm mondo-2.2.4-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm }}} " defect assigned low mondo 2.2.4 normal