remove rpm but retain specific folder
 

Hi Linux Guru's

just want to ask if is there a way to uninstall an rpm but retain a specific folder inside the directory?

Lets say I have an opscenter.rpm installed and the files are residing on /opt/opscenter. Inside /opt/opscenter there is a conf folder.

I would like to retain the /opt/opscenter/conf whenenver I want to try uninstalling the opscenter.rpm

Isn't this the default behavior of most (all?) package managers? To remove only the files installed and leave all the files that were altered or not part of installation?

yes like issuing "rpm -e <package_name>" removes /opt/opscenter directory. I would like to have /opt/opscenter/conf to be left intact after the uninstall command

I do not use RPM based distro, have you checked the manual page for rpm?

Is it as simple as copying the folder prior to issuing the uninstall command?

yup that was my option before, I might be sticking on that now.

Thanks all