Bug 37441 – Errors on deleting non-empty directories on upgrade aren't useful

Bug 37441 - Errors on deleting non-empty directories on upgrade aren't useful

Summary:	Errors on deleting non-empty directories on upgrade aren't useful

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
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Reported:	2001-04-24 11:51 EDT by Ed McKenzie
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:32 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-04-24 13:26:53 EDT
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Description Ed McKenzie 2001-04-24 11:51:07 EDT

rpm tries to delete directories once it has reason to think that directory 
no longer contains files, but in practice it ends up printing lots 
of "error: cannot remove /... - directory not empty."  I don't think this 
event is significant enough to print an error message, but that's just MHO.

In any case, it does seem odd to me that it prints this while performing a 
package upgrade.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-04-24 13:26:49 EDT

Yup. Reporting failed rmdir's is important to installer's and packagers,
but needlessly confuses users.

The error message will not be displayed if/when rpm runs a proper
package reference count on directories. The first step, adding an
index on directories in order to calculate the reference count is
in rpm-4.0.3. The final step, retrieving the number of packages
that use a directory so that the error messages will be displayed
only when the last package attempts a rmdir that fails remains.

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-05-06 10:10:00 EDT

I'm marking this as CURRENTRELEASE, because the (bogus IMHO) error message is
what is desired in rpm at the moment.

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