On Jun 29, 2022, at 18:46, Michael D. Setzer II via users
<users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> It is installed on all 4 machines, but 3 don't have the
> yumdb directory??
The RPM spec file for dnf shows that it does own the yumdb directory in the dnf
package, but it has the %ghost attribute, which means that it doesn’t actually
include the actual files in the package.
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/dnf/blob/f36/f/dnf.spec#_300
This is done to make the RPM database know that it’s technically part of the
package, but not to actually include any files in the package distribution.
Usually this is because they’re user generated and ephemeral, like what is
happening here.
I suspect this is left over from some Fedora system upgrade and no longer used.
I don’t have a device handy to look at the source to see why the %ghost
attribute was added, but I suspect you can just delete it and it’ll operate
fine. At least make a tarball of it and try removing it to see if it is ok
without it.
--
Jonathan Billings
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