[Bug 1069350] Re: suspicious /.rpmdb root directory

[Jeff Johnson]

E.g. cron is well known to not set $HOME by default: I'd agree that the root cause
for creating non-FHS /.rpmdb is due to $HOME not being set (and RPM patched
to use $HOME in essential/mandatory configuration like %_dbpath).

These issues are in a Debian patch to  RPM and needs to be addressed
within Debian/uBuntu.

If you wish rpm-4.9.1 "upstream" patched, then you need to use trac at
http://rpm.org.

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Title:
  suspicious /.rpmdb root directory

Status in rpm package manager:
  Opinion
Status in “rpm” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I have the following directory structure on my system which conflicts
  to the LSB standard:

  ls -ld /.rpmdb/{,*}
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Basenames
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Conflictname
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    24576 Apr 27 00:52 /.rpmdb/__db.001
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4096000 Apr 27 00:52 /.rpmdb/__db.002
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83894272 Apr 27 00:52 /.rpmdb/__db.003
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   811008 Apr 27 00:52 /.rpmdb/__db.004
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Dirnames
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Group
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Installtid
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Name
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Obsoletename
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    12288 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Packages
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Providename
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Requirename
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Sha1header
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Sigmd5
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Triggername

  Afaik, this directory belongs to rpm or alien. Maybe it appears
  because of a lack of environment variables (e.g. $HOME not set) in
  particular situations.

  As you can see in the listing, the directory is not used frequently,
  but I'm not sure if it's save to delete it. Maybe the problem is
  already solved in the current version of ubuntu (at last the time the
  files were touched I was running Ubuntu 11.10), but I think it's
  important to have this bug registered so other users can find it.
  There is an active thread about it at ubuntuforums:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1864423

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