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RPM directory checker
Introduction
This program was designed to find RPM-packages which are putting
files into directories without owning this directories. This practice
creates warnings while upgrading packages in the best case. In the
worst case you will have a lot of orphaned directories and wasted
inodes after deleting a package.
As a side-effect the directory-checker can create a graphical
representation of a package and its requirements.
Requirements:
* python2 (python 1.5 _may_ be possible also)
* an XSL processor like xltproc to produce human-readable output
(probably a HTML browser like w3m is needed also)
* optional graphviz[1] to create graphical representation
Installation
Program is only one python-module which can be placed everywhere.
Invoking
The directory-checker knows the following options
$ ./rpmDirectoryCheck --help
./rpmDirectoryCheck.py [-h|--help] [-o|--output report|graph] [-v|--verbose]
-f <filename>|<packages>+
-h|--help ... help
-o|--output ... output format
report - reports unowned directors [default]
graph - outputs dot-file
-v|--verbose ... increase verbosity; multiple -v options are
supported
-f ... fetch package-list from file <filename>
<packages>+ ... packages to visit
The generated output will be placed on stdout. An example run is:
$ ./rpmDirectoryCheck.py -vv basesystem filesystem python2
basesystem [ 1/3 (33%)]
filesystem [ 2/3 (66%)]
python2 [ 3/3 (100%)]
Warning: recursion at compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2
Warning: recursion at compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2
Warning: recursion at tcl-8.3.3-60
Warning: recursion at sh-utils-2.0.11-5
Warning: recursion at pam-0.75-7
Warning: recursion at Mesa-3.4.2-3
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<packagereport>
<package>
<fullname>chkconfig-1.2.23-1</fullname>
...
</package>
</packagereport>
The XML output can by transformed with the rpmDirectoryCheck.xsl
stylesheet into HTML:
$ xsltproc rpmDirectoryCheck.xsl <output>.xml
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
...
</body>
</html>
The graphviz-output (.dot-file) can be transformed into png:
$ dot -Tpng <output>.dot ><output>.png
Bugs
* the program-name is ugly
* it is slow; perhaps it can be speed up a little bit by accessing the
rpm database directly without calling 'rpm -q...'
* errors are not handled properly; they are just throwing exceptions
* xml/dot-output may be enhanced
* directory-checker should be placed into a RPM-package
Please report other bugs to mailto:enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de!
License
This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your
option) any later version.
This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
version 2 along with this package; see the file GPL.
Changelog
2001-08-09, version 0.0.2
- removed debug-print
2001-08-09, version 0.0.1
- initial release
Footnotes:
[1] http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/; look at
http://rhcontrib.bero.org for rpms