On Tuesday, November 23, 2021 7:11:31 PM EST Maxwell G wrote: > Hi, > > On Tuesday, November 23, 2021 1:37:36 PM CST Steve Grubb wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am preparing to migate a F35 system to new hardware and was sanity > > checking the whole system. One thing I found was that there are a number > > of system directories that that are not owned by the package that uses > > them: > > > > /var/cache/ibus > > /var/cache/PackageKit > > /var/cache/cups > > /var/log/anaconda > > /var/lib/tpm2-tss > > /var/lib/machines > > /var/lib/hsqldb > > /var/lib/cs > > /var/lib/rpcbind > > /var/lib/portables > > /etc/module-build-service > > /etc/default > > /etc/pesign > > /etc/ipa > > /etc/ndctl > > /etc/flatpak > > Yes, I have also noticed issues with directory ownership. However, I am > not sure what the rules are about packages owning directories under > `/var/cache` or `/var` in general. I can tell you that the `filesystem` > package owns `/var/cache` itself:
If they use it, they should declare it. Otherwise how do you know what you can safely rm -rf ? If you have migrated a system over many releases, this is important so that you know what can safely be deleted. > ``` > $ rpm -qf /var/cache > filesystem-3.14-7.fc35.x86_64 ``` Top level ownership is not good enough because we have to be able to determine what is in use now vs what I can delete. > There are also some directories that are owned by multiple packages, e.g. > shell completions packages[1,2], instead of none at all. That is a separate problem. > > Should there be a gating or other test that catches this? > > I think there should be. For your reference, here[3,4] are the sections of > the Fedora Packaging Guidelines surrounding directory ownership. I think either rpmlint and/or gating should verify ownership. There is a problem of common ownership. But as long as someone owns it, this helps to know if we can rm -rf the directory. -Steve _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
