On Wednesday 27 February 2002 23:47, Gordon Pritchard wrote:
In the true spirit of (now!) "trying to do everything right", I've decided I should stop ignoring warnings and error messages :-)
root@oilslick:/home/gordonp/sax2 > rpm --nodeps --force -Uhv *.rpm sax2
This is a contradiction in terms. If you use --nodeps and --force you are very much ignoring warnings and errors
################################################## cannot remove /var/opt/sax - directory not empty cannot remove /usr/X11R6/lib/sax/sysp/maps - directory not empty cannot remove /usr/X11R6/lib/sax/sysp - directory not empty cannot remove /usr/X11R6/lib/sax - directory not empty saxident ##################################################
When the old sax package is upgraded rpm attempts to remove files and directories that aren't in the new. If those directories are also used by other packages, or if programs have stored temporary files in them, the rmdir will fail. It's generally nothing to worry about. Just check what files are there, and if they aren't important (be sure about this, though) you can do an rm -rf on the dirs //Anders