RPM installed but unowned files and dirs

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

After upgrading from RedHat -> test -> rawhide -> RedHat -> test -> test 
-> rawhide -> FC -> test ->rawhide -> fc -> etc.

My system has become a bit of a mess, so I decided todo a rpm -qf on 
every file and dir and grep for " not owned by any package"

Which resulted in a shocking 6000 hits!

So I decided to write a script which undertook the task of cleaning all 
this mess for me in the true unix spirit. This script has been attached 
for you're reading and (ab)using pleasure.

Be warned no guarantees what soever, this might eat your HD etc. This 
script is only intented for people who have everything except files 
under /home managed by RPM if you have manually installed software it 
will NUKE this including software installed under /usr/local !

If you take a look at the script you'll see that the find for removing 
files contains quite a lott of excludes, these I believe are all 
packaging bugs!

Also the script ends by generating a list of dirs which after the 
cleanup are not owned by any package, see attachment 2.

I've already entered some of these in bugzilla but gave up when I saw 
how many there are, should I enter these in bugzilla?

Regards,

Hans
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