Bug 1021859

Summary:	$JBOSS_HOME contains hidden ".installation" folder after installation
Product:	[JBoss] JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6	Reporter:	Petr Kremensky <pkremens>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Francisco Canas <fcanas>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Petr Kremensky <pkremens>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:	Russell Dickenson <rdickens>
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.2.0	CC:	fcanas, pkremens, thauser
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Description Petr Kremensky 2013-10-22 08:40:49 UTC

Description of problem:
 There is empty hidden folder left by installer inside $JBOSS_HOME.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 EAP 6.2.0.ER6

How reproducible:
 Always

Steps to Reproduce:
 1. Install EAP using default values
 2. Navigate to $JBOSS_HOME
 3. Run: ll -a

Actual results:
EAP-6.2.0/jboss-eap-6.2]$ ll -a
...
drwxrwxr-x.  2 pkremens pkremens   4096 Oct 22 10:36 icons
drwxrwxr-x.  2 pkremens pkremens   4096 Oct 22 10:36 .installation
-rw-rw-r--.  1 pkremens pkremens    425 Oct 15 20:30 JBossEULA.txt

Expected results:
 .installation folder was deleted by installer.

Comment 1 Francisco Canas 2013-10-23 18:02:30 UTC

This hidden directory is not actually left by the installer. It is present in the eap zip. You can verify that by downloading the zip directly from here:
http://download.eng.bos.redhat.com/devel/candidates/JBEAP/JBEAP-6.2.0.ER6/

The installer should only remove folders that it itself put down, otherwise there is a risk (if small) of destroying user data. What options do we have? Should this BZ be reassigned to the team producing the zips?

Comment 2 Petr Kremensky 2013-10-24 05:56:34 UTC

I found out that this directory is here because of new patching mechanism. Sorry for confusion. 

Closing as NOTABUG.

[1] - http://documentation-devel.engineering.redhat.com/docs/en-US/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform/6.2/html/Installation_Guide/sect-Patch_Installation.html