Re: Too many unowned directories

[Michael Schwendt <mschwendt gmail com>]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:48:49 -0500, Colin wrote:

> I think the conclusion was that this problem would just go away if RPM
> reference counted directories?

When will that happen?

A restrictive umask still creates inaccessible unowned directories when
installing packages. And these bad permissions of such directories cannot
be verified/discovered with "rpm --verify" either.

In other cases, unowned directories are the result of missing
dependencies. And in turn, "yum install foo" installs a non-working
package. Dir refcounting in RPM cannot fix that.