[openfabrics-ewg] Aborting install removes OFED sources

[Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Sokolovsky [mailto:vlad at mellanox.co.il] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 9:18 AM
> To: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
> Cc: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] Aborting install removes OFED sources
> 
> > Why is "rm -rf" being used, anyway?  Shouldn't "rpm -e ..." be
> > sufficient?
>   
> There are OFED docs directory and several files under installation 
> prefix directory which are not a part of OFED RPMs.
> I will add them to the list of the installed files in order to remove 
> them on uninstall.

Ok.

You should remove all files that OFED installs, and if OFED creates a
directory, it should *only* be removed if that directory is empty after
the installer removes all OFED-installed files from that directory (this
is what RPM and other installers/uninstallers do).  "rm -rf" should
never never never be used; use "rmdir".

My $0.04.

-- 
Jeff Squyres
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems