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 |+ -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 + ... 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 chkconfig-1.2.23-1 ... The XML output can by transformed with the rpmDirectoryCheck.xsl stylesheet into HTML: $ xsltproc rpmDirectoryCheck.xsl .xml ... The graphviz-output (.dot-file) can be transformed into png: $ dot -Tpng .dot >.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