Am 09.03.2014 20:05, schrieb Panu Matilainen: > On 03/09/2014 04:49 PM, Kevin Kofler 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), 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. > > Right. CLEARLY this would've been Just The Thing to do when /bin changed from a directory to a /usr/bin symlink. > Right? in fact *nothing* at all should refer to /bin and /sbin after UsrMove as the waeking of the package guidelines is a sign of missing courage in the context of such invasive changes - well, looks like i need to continue fix the still extsinting mess of that half-baken change becaue my SPEC files are all-or-nothing and after nobody cared about my warnings to do UsrMove it is a bad sign that it *never* was finished
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