[OpenIndiana-discuss] Questions about /var/pkg

[Bill Sommerfeld]

On 1/12/24 06:49, Marcel Telka wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 08:21:17AM -0600, Matthew R. Trower wrote:
>> If uninstalling a package places files in lost+found, then I'm well and
>> truly confused.
> 
> To confuse you a bit more here is an example:
> 
> # find /var/pkg/lost+found/ -type f
> # echo test > /usr/lib/python3.9/vendor-packages/pytest_randomly-3.15.0.dist-info/TEST
> # pkg uninstall pytest-randomly-39 pytest-randomly
> ...
> # find /var/pkg/lost+found/ -type f
> /var/pkg/lost+found/usr/lib/python3.9/vendor-packages/pytest_randomly-3.15.0.dist-info-20240112T154031Z/TEST
> # cat /var/pkg/lost+found/usr/lib/python3.9/vendor-packages/pytest_randomly-3.15.0.dist-info-20240112T154031Z/TEST
> test
> #

Just to clarify what happened here, Marcel added a file to an 
IPS-created directory then deleted the only package that caused that 
directory to exist.   IPS deleted the files it managed, moved the 
leftovers to a subdirectory of /var/pkg/lost+found, then deleted the 
directory.