Hello Matthias,
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Matthias Saou wrote:
Searching some bugzilla entries, I found these open bugs regarding
/dev
and other basic directories that aren't owned by any packages. Maybe
someone on this list could take care of these since they all seem to
be EasyFixes?
thank you very much for being a gentleman. But congratulation should went
to Jeff as he programmed the runtime check into rpm 4.4.6 to avoid orphan
directories...just another reason for accepting bug #174307 ;-)
There are even many more orphan directories and symbolic links, but they
are unfortunately not EasyFix. Some of these, I recognized and tracked
down in Bugzilla, too:
"Lots of /usr/share/locale/* are not owned by a package":
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191581
"Move /etc/firmware to /lib/firmware":
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193237
"Packaged symbolic link to an unpackaged file":
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193475
"Move /lib/modules/<version>/{build,source} to -devel package":
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193477
And as already said, I believe there are many many more. Just install
latest RPM version from
www.wraptastic.org/pub/rpm-4.4.x/ and enter a
`rpm -Va --nofiles | grep -v "Unsatisfied" | sort -u`
in a terminal to see further orphans caused by insane packaging...
Greetings,
Robert