RE: Removing directories/files in RPM erase

["Hajducko, Steven" <steven hajducko digitalinsight com>]

Cool, thanks for the sage words of advice guys.

As it turns out, the RPM would own this directory, because it's installing to it's own directory under /opt and it's in that directory that it's creating these files during run time.

Unfortunately, I can't possibly know the name of each file that it's going to create ( it creates ssl certs based on the hosts that connect to it.. ), so it looks like the %ghost attribute isn't going to work and I'll just have to go along with uninstall scripts.

Thanks again

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpm-list-bounces redhat com 
> [mailto:rpm-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Tim Mooney
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:08 PM
> To: RPM Package Manager
> Subject: Re: Removing directories/files in RPM erase
> 
> In regard to: Re: Removing directories/files in RPM erase, 
> Jeff Johnson...:
> 
> >>> However, when I remove the RPM, it doesn't remove the directories 
> >>> because they aren't empty.  Should I setup a post 
> uninstall to see 
> >>> if this is the last instance of the package and if it is, 
> manually 
> >>> remove those directories?
> >> 
> >> Look up the %ghost attribute (?, token?, I'm not sure what 
> it should 
> >> be classified as) and see if that does what you need.
> >> 
> >
> > %ghost won't solve removing nonempty directories. The %ghost 
> > directive, with its mysterious name, claims ownership for a 
> package of 
> > a pre-existing path.
> 
> No, but if the %ghost is applied to the log files and the 
> other files that are created as part of the execution of the 
> programs, then those will be removed when the package is 
> removed, and hence the directory will be empty.
> 
> > Establishing ownership of a directory in packaging, 
> particularly for 
> > some public path in which, say, modules are installed, can be quite 
> > complicated.
> 
> :-)  Don't I know it! I started a pretty lengthy thread about 
> that exact issue right after 4.4.7 or 4.4.8 came out and I 
> first experienced needing to claim directories (which I also 
> think is The Right Thing, it's just hard to do in some cases 
> because of ambiguous ownership).
> 
> Tim
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