Bob Stia wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 February 2004 11:40 am, Ian Blenke wrote:
>
>>Eben King wrote:
>>
>>>RPM is probably just trying to be tidy by removing directories,
>>>which will only succeed if they're empty.
>>
>>It's merely a warning, not an error.
>>
>>The upgrade script for whatever RPM you are installing is merely
>>checking to see if those directories are empty so that it might clean
>>up after itself. There are almost definitely OTHER packages installed
>>that do have files in those directories - you do NOT want to remove
>>them if you want those other packages to function properly.
>>
>
> Thanks for replying guys. Guess I will just leave them alone. There
> may or may not be extraneous files/packages that exist there and never
> to be used again, but how would one know for sure. Use up a little
> extra space on the HD. Oh well !!
Go into the directory in question and do an "rpm -q -f" on the file, ie:
for dir in /usr/share/themes /usr/lib/gtk/themes/engines
/usr/lib/gtk/themes /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/engines
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0 /usr/lib/gtk ; do
for file in $dir/* ; do
rpm -q -f "$file" ;
done ;
done | sort | uniq
After a bit of churning, this should give you a list of packages that
have files in those directories.
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