files get removed on RPM upgrade of devel/shared packages
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When indimail-shared* or indimail-devel* package is upgrade, the shared libraries get removed.
Doing RPM upgrade of indimail-shared package will cause a working installation of Indimail to go down.
Doing RPM upgrade of indimail-devel package will cause static libraries in /var/indimail/lib and man pages in section 3 to disappear.
DO NOT do RPM upgrade of shared package
This problem is present only in the indimail-shared and indimail-shared package
do
1) take backup of /var/indimail/etc, /var/indimail/control
2) rpm --erase <package_name> followed by rpm --ivh <package_name>
3) restore from backup taken in step 1
The PROBLEM HAS BEEN FIXED IN Release 1.7.4. Regret inconvenience caused.
variable argv1 was not assigned, causing this problem. This has been fixed as part of 1.7.4 release