Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Directory and file interaction is a hard problem. There's no right thing
> to do in this case. The many possible things we could do all have one
> drawback or another in certain cases.
The right thing is clear: If all the files inside the directory are owned by
packages about to be removed in the transaction, just rm -rf the directory
(or rather the equivalent in C code), otherwise rename it with a suffix
(.rpmsave, if necessary .rpmsave0, .rpmsave1, … , .rpmsave10, …) and only
delete the files owned by packages about to be removed in the transaction.
With subdirectories, you do the same recursively: First you process the
subdirectory (from the deepest level up), then once it is processed, it can
be treated like a file.
Kevin Kofler
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