4.8.1 -> 4.9.1.3 upgrade woes

[Dash Four]

Dash Four wrote:
>> When upgrading from a BDB version to another, you'll need to remove 
>> the BDB environment, which is always incompatible between BDB versions:
>> 'rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*'
> That is indeed the case - I figured it out later on. There is a 
> "posttrans" scriptlet in the .spec file (I use FC), which *should* 
> take care of this automatically, but doesn't. Why? Because there is a 
> bug in the libdb-utils package (I used version 5.00).
>
> libdb-utils 5+ *should* obsolete the db4-utils package (as it is a 
> straight-forward replacement), but doesn't, hence the "postrtrans" 
> scriptlet, which is dependent on an error message being displayed, 
> doesn't work and it is why I was getting this error when trying to 
> upgrade - the "old" db4-utils package is not deleted and because it 
> shows no error message the __db.00? files are not deleted, so I had to 
> delete them all manually in the end.
Further to the above, I came across what I think is another bug.

Currently, when I have "%debug_package %{nil}" in my $HOME/.rpmmacros 
(or "%define debug_package %{nil}" included in my .spec file directly) 
the brp-strip-shared script is NOT included for execution in 
"platform.in", therefore shared objects/executables are NOT stripped 
(brp-strip is executed, but it excludes shared objects as it executes 
"grep -v ' shared object,'").

In other words, what we have is:

platform.in
~~~~~~~~~~~
%__os_install_post    \
    %{_rpmconfigdir}/brp-compress \
    %{_rpmconfigdir}/brp-strip %{__strip} \
    %{_rpmconfigdir}/brp-strip-static-archive %{__strip} \
    %{_rpmconfigdir}/brp-strip-comment-note %{__strip} %{__objdump} \
%{nil}

That should actually be:

platform.in
~~~~~~~~~~~
%__os_install_post    \
    %{_rpmconfigdir}/brp-compress \
    %{_rpmconfigdir}/brp-strip %{__strip} \
    %{_rpmconfigdir}/brp-strip-shared %{__strip} \
    %{_rpmconfigdir}/brp-strip-static-archive %{__strip} \
    %{_rpmconfigdir}/brp-strip-comment-note %{__strip} %{__objdump} \
%{nil}

since "%{_rpmconfigdir}/brp-strip" contains "grep -v ' shared object,'" 
statement which excludes stripping of shared objects, naturally. There 
is identical bug in the redhat-rpm-config package, but I already 
submitted a report for that (see 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988812).