Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 51381
A lot of packages should own some directories more
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:22:29 EDT
A lot of packages are placing files into directories which are neither owned - by themself nor - by required packages (else the dir would exists already) Usually this is not a big problem, but it creates ugly warnings while installing a package and orphaned directories at upgrading. There are a lot of bugreports with regard to this bug (e.g. bug #51166, #51161, #51165...) I have checked my machine (mostly rawhide + some foreign packages) for such packages. The result can be found at http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/rpmDirectoryCheck/sample/all-rpms.html There the "erroneous" packages are listed together with the directories which they are occupying but not owning. The experimental rpm-directory checker (http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/rpmDirectoryCheck) was used to create this page. Well, to make it really usable, the packages should be grouped by their maintainer, but I don't have any information about this relation. It should be possible to send automated bugreports to Bugzilla, but this would be a kind of spam ;) (the example above would create more than 400 new bugs...) If you are interested in the raw XML data, please drop me a note. I will see my plain-beta3 machine at weekend soonest, but there are only limited resources and I have not an "everything" installation there. Thus I will catch only a small subset of affected packages.
I have made an "everything" installation. The result is available at http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/dircheck/roswell/all-beta3-packages.html There the packages are ordered in importance of errors: 1. Packages which are using directories owned by no other package (marked red) 2. Packages covered by bug #50676 3. Packages using directories which are not owned by themself or their requirements. Indeed, other package(s) being not requirements, are owning it. Packages of category 1 should be fixed in any case; these of number 2, if bug #50676 is fixed. Cat 3 bugs can be fixed easily by adding a 'Requires: XX' where package XX owns the concerning directory. At http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/dircheck/roswell you will find the raw XML data also.
Oops, wrong bug number at item 2. Bug #50747 is correct.
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported releases. Please reopen bugs against individual packages where this still happens.