rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on 07/22/2008 12:58:37 PM: > OK. I'm not sure what you mean by "which way". If you haven't already > done so, you might want to investigate the --dump query option to get > detailed info on directory ownership and permissions. by "which way" I mean that you can list a directory in the %files section a handful of ways %dir /path/to/dir /path/to/dir /path/to/dir/* I'm not saying that they are all the Right Way, but that doesn't mean that someone hasnt used all of them at one point or another. Where this makes a difference is how it gets removed upon package removal. Please correct me if I'm wrong but don't the different methods of declaring the directory in the %files section behave differently upon rpm removal? I want to say that they do behave differently, but it has ben a while since I built an RPM with the purpose of testing them. The --dump option is helpful and probably what I need to figure out how to access from inside python, but also shows my concern. Lets take the the files in /boot/grub and the grub RPM (i'll shorten output some for the sake of brevity): My script tells methat these following files are not owned by an RPM: /boot/grub/device.map /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 /boot/grub/fat_stage1_5 /boot/grub/ffs_stage1_5 /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/iso9660_stage1_5 /boot/grub/jfs_stage1_5 /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/minix_stage1_5 /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/ufs2_stage1_5 /boot/grub/vstafs_stage1_5 /boot/grub/xfs_stage1_5 So a quick wrapper script verifies that (assuming the above list is inside a file called orphans.lst): [root@hawk ~]# for x in `cat orphans.lst`; do rpm -q --whatprovides $x; done file /boot/grub/device.map is not owned by any package file /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 is not owned by any package file /boot/grub/fat_stage1_5 is not owned by any package ... file /boot/grub/ufs2_stage1_5 is not owned by any package file /boot/grub/vstafs_stage1_5 is not owned by any package file /boot/grub/xfs_stage1_5 is not owned by any package Yep, none of them are owned. So lets look at the shared directory path, /boot/grub. [root@hawk ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides /boot/grub grub-0.97-19 Now taking a --dump of grub: [root@hawk ~]# rpm -q --dump grub /boot/grub 4096 1190319671 00000000000000000000000000000000 040755 root root 0 0 0 X /sbin/grub 239780 1190319672 643711e5865afb872322eefd1dfbf2de 0100755 root root 0 0 0 X /sbin/grub-install 17645 1190319670 de58a44fb9850640aed1df09d2e62c82 0100755 root root 0 0 0 X ... /usr/share/man/man8/grub.8.gz 766 1190319671 788ab166e49665d586e5b20552d88b67 0100644 root root 0 1 0 X The only entry related to the /boot/grub direcory and its contents was specifically /boot/grub, and the 3rd from last value supposedly specifies "isdoc"*. This value is not set to true (which I would assume would be a 1). This should mean that it was defined as '/boot/grub' not '%dir /boot/grub'. (on a side note, any idea why the grub.8.gz man page file would be considered a directory? is the man page wrong?) So when I remove that rpm, what happens to the directory and the files? -greg * per man page of rpm the column explanation is: path size mtime md5sum mode owner group isconfig isdoc rdev symlink _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
