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:
```
$ rpm -qf /var/cache
filesystem-3.14-7.fc35.x86_64
```
There are also some directories that are owned by multiple packages, e.g. shell
completions packages[1,2], instead of none at all.
> 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.
Thanks,
Maxwell
[1]:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZSXQBRTQ6YJGE4LIBZ32BFABE6BLIOW7/
[2]:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ERPOO3YGBHUJAMNXCEIUXGGH6LWEA7LN/
[3]:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_file_and_directory_ownership
[4]:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/UnownedDirectories/
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