On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 08:49 -0600, Richard Megginson wrote: > Chris St. Pierre wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Steve Rigler wrote: > > > >> Personally, I prefer "rpm -e" to remove only the files that were > >> originally installed by the package. > > > > I'll second that. > Ok. The way Fedora DS works with respect to RPM install is a little > different than OpenLDAP or other similar server software packages. With > those, you generally get some of the configuration for your "instance" > with the RPM package (there is usually only the one instance, and if you > want to run another server, you have to manually configure it > yourself). With Fedora DS, there are no instance specific > files/directories in the RPM. You have to run the setup command to > create these, and this will create the following directories: > /etc/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - contains dse.ldif and key and cert > databases, pin.txt file, maybe the keytab as well > /usr/lib64/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - scripts like db2ldif, ldif2db, etc. > /var/lib/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - databases > /var/log/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - logs > /var/tmp/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - tmp files > /var/lock/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - lock files/dirs > > So if you rpm -e, all of these will be left behind. I don't know if > that is expected or desired. That's fine for me. It's actually good because when I'm testing a new piece of software I might reinstall it from scratch. If it leaves some old files behind I can always go back and compare to a working install to see where I screwed up. -Steve
