Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > Though this topic may be borderline off-topic for the -dev lists, they > have the most traffic, and just may be relevant. > > My question is this: > > How do others handle the situation where directories are created by > a package during the package install, and then other packages install > other files in these directories? > > Take for example, GLib. During my installations, Glib is one of the > first packages I install (in fact do it during the chroot phase of LFS). > Anyway, for example GLib will create a /usr/share/gtk-doc directory > and the corresponding html directory and then populate it. > > Later on other packages will populate /usr/share/gtk-doc/html with > other files/directories. Now, a bit later, I may want to update GLib > to a more recent version. The first thing I do is use my log of installed > files and directories during the initial Glib installation to remove > anything it had installed. > > I don't like overwriting files, I prefer to remove all old files from > the previous version before commencing an installation of a newer version. > > But I can't remove the /usr/share/gtk-doc directory as other packages > have also used it since. > > After removing all the GLib files, I will usually remove all the log > files associated with that initial installation. And this leaves me with > the dilemma that there is now no package that shows it created the > /usr/share/gtk-doc directory. > > This is not harmful, but from a logging standpoint it has a deficiency > in that I can't determine what package initially installed the directory. > > I realize I could keep my old logs from packages I've since removed and > replaced, but I'm wondering how others do it. > > I use package users as describe in http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/more_control_and_pkg_man.txt, that system works entirely without logging, just do a `find / -user $pkg_user` and get needed files.
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