yum doesn't remove old package files

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Thursday 29 November 2007 13:09:29 Michael Schwendt ha scritto:
> On 29/11/2007, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > a proof of $Subject:
> >
> > [nico at nico2 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i firefox
> > firefox-2.0.0.9-1.fc8
> > firefox-2.0.0.9-1.fc8
> >
> > [root at nico2 ~]# du -sh /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.*
> > 6,8M    /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6
> > 20K     /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8
> > 43M     /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.9
> >
> > Obviously
> > rpm -qif on /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6 and on
> > /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8 reported that the directories weren't
> > owned by any package.
>
> You draw wrong conclusions. The directories _are_ owned by the
> firefox package with the corresponding version. It's just that when
> the old package was removed, the directory was not empty and
> contained _files_ that don't belong into the firefox package, and
> RPM _can't_ remove the directory then. So, what files do you still
> find in the two old directories?
>

now there's nothing, because I removed them.
anyway, when I install extensions I always do it
as ordinary users from within firefox itself (that is,
without using rpm or yum), so I can't have
installed files in there (unless some other
.rpm does it; maybe some .rpm extension? )