Upgrading does not remove old package directories

[mjohngreene]

Upgrade installs on an Ubuntu instance run to completion and otherwise install fine. However, the last step before starting the newly installed validator generates some warnings that the old directories are not being deleted:

It is not clear to me as to whether this is something specific to Ubuntu and/or the dpkg command. I had not noticed this before as I'd only run a couple upgrade installs previously on this machine. It is no huge issue or anything as I can do it manually. I am just wanting to make sure I am not missing a flag or command or some such that might automate this as part of the package as doing the deletions manually for a small fleet of validators is less than ideal.

[PaulVMo]

You can ignore the warning - it's nothing you did wrong.

dpkg tries to clean up all files and folders that the install created. however, the running the miner generates files in that directory which were not created as part of the install. dpkg does not remove files it didn't create but then warns because dpkg did create the directory originally.

I could probably clean this up in the post remove script. I will keep this open so i can try that when i get some time.

[mjohngreene]

Thanks. For both the speedy response and explanation. I am pleased to know it is purely a housekeeping issue. And agreed that you should definitely not be in a rush to fix it.