On Mar 9, 2014 7:49 AM, "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > Directory and file interaction is a hard problem. There's no right thing
> > to do in this case. The many possible things we could do all have one
> > drawback or another in certain cases.
>
> The right thing is clear: If all the files inside the directory are owned by
> packages about to be removed in the transaction, just rm -rf the directory
> (or rather the equivalent in C code),
Yes, the simple case is simple.
> otherwise rename it with a suffix
> (.rpmsave, if necessary .rpmsave0, .rpmsave1, … , .rpmsave10, …) and only
> delete the files owned by packages about to be removed in the transaction.
>
But this is where the answers start to have drawbacks. As just one example, renaming the directory will break other packages which installed files into that directory.
-Toshio
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