Bug 173854

Created attachment 121319 [details]
Bring media mountpoints up to date

/media/XXXX is created by HAL, I wouldn't want to own them.

What about still owning /mnt/floppy and /mnt/cdrom, specfied in the specfile 
in a way that looks very much to me as taking care of things being created at 
runtime by something? 

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Changing to rawhide again to prevent autoclosing again, I'll take a look if something really depends on those ghosted dirs later.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
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"rpm -qRa |grep /mnt" turns up nothing, at least for the packages in the Fedora 12 Desktop Spin.  Not sure if there's an easy way to confirm *nothing* depends on these packages without installing Everything (or the source code to all packages, to be incredibly thorough).

I think this way of dependency search is not usable - as the filesystem package is always installed. From what I have seen, /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/floppy is referenced on few places - like /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms from pam.

Anyway - those dirs are ghosted, so not created automatically - so the biggest possible harm is an unowned directory (which already happens with /media/XXXX dirs).

I see two (correct) possibilities - 
1) to own the basic four /media/XXXX directories from fhs (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT) in filesystem and rest possibly created dirs in media owned by hal
2) to own all possible /media/xxxx subdirs created by hal directly in hal

Or to stay with the current situation (just with /mnt/xxxx subdirs dropped from filesystem package)

Well, the bigger possible harm is strikeback of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=52046 ... after upgrade. If someone uses /mnt/cdrom or /mnt/floppy as location for floppy/cdrom mounts points, those empty dirs will get removed after this filesystem update. However - media dirs are now more in use and I do plan to do that in rawhide only (and just once). So let's see... dropped ownership in filesystem-2.4.34-1.fc14. Closing RAWHIDE.