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Bug 2345

Summary:	Inappropriate "cannot remove DIR - directory not empty"
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	jamie
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jay Turner <jturner>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	6.0	CC:	srevivo
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Description jamie 1999-04-23 16:43:43 UTC

I encounted this when upgrading from gimp-1.0.1-2.i386.rpm
to gimp-1.0.4-3.i386.rpm:

cannot remove /usr/lib/gimp - directory not empty

I get it from time to time with other packages too.
The message is inappropriate because /usr/lib/gimp is
actually used by the new package.  However it is not
explicitly listed by the package: the directory
/usr/lib/gimp/1.0 is listed, and /usr/lib/gimp is implied by
that.

I suspect the previous version did have /usr/lib/gimp in the
directory list, hence the message.

Suggestion: Don't try to delete directories whose existence
is implied by other directories from another package.  One
way would be to add entries for those implied directories to
the database, with a flag to say they're implied.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-05-11 15:35:59 UTC

Rpm cannot remove directories that are not empty while attempting to
remove a package. Furthermore, the bug is often in the already
released package so we cannot always repackage to work around
the problem.