Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 24, 2021 4:51:36 AM EST Miro Hrončok wrote:
>>>> Should there be a gating or other test that catches this?
>>>
>>> I've also noticed this problem, but with old python directories
>>> lingering after upgrades.
>>> For example, on my upgraded-from-ages-ago Fedora 35 Workstation
>>> machine, I still had empty directory trees for old pythons, i.e.
>>> directory trees containing empty "package" directories and empty
>>> __pycache__ directories in
>>> /usr/lib{,64}/python3.{7,8,9}/site-packages/
>>> Looks like a missing file / directory ownership problem in some python
>>> packages.
>>
>> Yes, I regularly file bugzillas for packages that do that.
>
> Therein lies the problem. I did not include the findings from /usr/share.
> There are too many problems for me to start filing bug reports. But I think
> if
> a package has exclusive use of a directory in /var/cache /var/log /var/spool
> /var/lib /etc /usr/share, it should declare ownership. It is a very simple
> test to write. This can be megabytes of old logs or data.
>
> And, I was also very surprised to find 10's of gigabytes of data in
> $HOME/.cache/debuginfod_client I don't know how it got there, why it's so
> big, or how to limit it.
What's strange is that /etc/ipa is owned by freeipa-client-common and
freeipa-server-common so I'm not sure how it became orphaned. Is it
possible some of these are leftovers after package install/uninstall?
rob
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