Package updates does not remove noextract'ed files

Question

Package updates does not remove noextract'ed files

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.

Answer 1 · 2022-11-10T04:32:06.000Z

noextract doesn't apply to installed packages

Answer 2 · 2022-11-10T05:05:58.000Z

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

Answer 3 · 2022-11-10T17:14:49.000Z

give an example?

Answer 4 · 2023-09-21T11:15:37.000Z

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