[Fedora-directory-users] rpm -e behavior

[Steve Rigler]

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 08:49 -0600, Richard Megginson wrote:
> Chris St. Pierre wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Steve Rigler wrote:
> >
> >> Personally, I prefer "rpm -e" to remove only the files that were
> >> originally installed by the package.
> >
> > I'll second that.
> Ok.  The way Fedora DS works with respect to RPM install is a little 
> different than OpenLDAP or other similar server software packages.  With 
> those, you generally get some of the configuration for your "instance" 
> with the RPM package (there is usually only the one instance, and if you 
> want to run another server, you have to manually configure it 
> yourself).  With Fedora DS, there are no instance specific 
> files/directories in the RPM.  You have to run the setup command to 
> create these, and this will create the following directories:
> /etc/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - contains dse.ldif and key and cert 
> databases, pin.txt file, maybe the keytab as well
> /usr/lib64/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - scripts like db2ldif, ldif2db, etc.
> /var/lib/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - databases
> /var/log/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - logs
> /var/tmp/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - tmp files
> /var/lock/fedora-ds/slapd-instance - lock files/dirs
> 
> So if you rpm -e, all of these will be left behind.  I don't know if 
> that is expected or desired.

That's fine for me.  It's actually good because when I'm testing a new
piece of software I might reinstall it from scratch.  If it leaves some
old files behind I can always go back and compare to a working install
to see where I screwed up.

-Steve