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Package updates does not remove noextract'ed files

Open Carmina16 opened this issue 2 years ago • 4 comments

If a package installs a file foo, and there is a noextract rule that excludes that file, and if the package is updated, the old version of foo will not be cleaned properly and the file will be left over.

Carmina16 avatar Nov 10 '22 03:11 Carmina16

noextract doesn't apply to installed packages

Vaelatern avatar Nov 10 '22 04:11 Vaelatern

Really? I'm still getting messages that foo was not extracted during the upgrade. Is that message lying?

Carmina16 avatar Nov 10 '22 05:11 Carmina16

give an example?

Vaelatern avatar Nov 10 '22 17:11 Vaelatern

Making xbps remove files that its not tracking seems like it could lead to deleting user data.

Duncaen avatar Sep 21 '23 11:09 Duncaen