On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:48:49 -0500, Colin wrote:
I think the conclusion was that this problem would just go away if
RPM
reference counted directories?
When will that happen?
A restrictive umask still creates inaccessible unowned directories when
installing packages. And these bad permissions of such directories cannot
be verified/discovered with "rpm --verify" either.
In other cases, unowned directories are the result of missing
dependencies. And in turn, "yum install foo" installs a non-working
package. Dir refcounting in RPM cannot fix that.