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RPM directory that shouldn't get erased on upgrade

I am trying to build a rpm package for my application. And I would like to not remove a owned directory but keep adding files to it on upgrade. I will also like to remove the directory and all it files on uninstall. How do I achieve this?

Solution

  • that is basic behavior or rpm packages. If you put this:

    %files
/var/application

    in your spec file; then the directory /var/application belongs to the rpm with everything below. When you uninstall your rpm; the directory will be completely removed.

    Suppose application.1.rpm contains:

    /var/application/file1
/var/application/file2

    and application.2.rpm contains:

    /var/application/file2
/var/application/file3

    then after upgrade from application.1.rpm to application.2.rpm; the directory will contain file2 and file3. file1 will be removed because it is not anymore part of application.2.rpm.