[cmake-developers] [CMake 0012542]: Uninstalling a cpack-generated rpm leaves empty directories behind

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12542 
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Reported By:                Alex Neundorf
Assigned To:                Eric NOULARD
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   12542
Category:                   CPack
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2011-10-27 09:32 EDT
Last Modified:              2011-10-27 09:32 EDT
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Summary:                    Uninstalling a cpack-generated rpm leaves empty
directories behind
Description: 
We are using cpack to generate rpms for our package.
When such a rpm is uninstalled later on, the files are removed, but empty
directories are left behind.
It would be nice if those would be removed too.

One way could be to collect all installed directories, and put them with %dir in
the spec file.
But, AFAIK, not all those directories should be removed when uninstalling the
package, e.g. /usr/local/bin should not be removed.
One way to do this would be to filter the obtained list of directories against a
set of known directories (e.g. from CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH), so that /usr,
/usr/local, and their bin, include and lib directories are filtered out.
This could be extended by an additional variable e.g. in
Modules/Platforms/UnixPaths.cmake like CMAKE_OTHER_STANDARD_PATHS which could
contain e.g. shared/, doc/ etc.

Alex


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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2011-10-27 09:32 Alex Neundorf  New Issue                                    
2011-10-27 09:32 Alex Neundorf  Status                   new => assigned     
2011-10-27 09:32 Alex Neundorf  Assigned To               => Eric NOULARD    
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