#6700 LOW -: move root's home to /home/root (was: allow an option to not overwrite root's home directory on upgrade)

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#6700: move root's home to /home/root
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   Reporter:  hhardy           |       Owner:  cscott
       Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  new   
   Priority:  low              |   Milestone:        
  Component:  upgrade utility  |     Version:        
 Resolution:                   |    Keywords:        
Next_action:  never set        |    Verified:  0     
  Blockedby:                   |    Blocking:        
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Changes (by cscott):

  * next_action:  => never set


Old description:

> It would be helpful for school administrators & "power users" if the
> contents of root's home directory and in particular .bash_history could
> be flagged such that it would not get nuked on upgrades. It would also be
> helpful if the list of installed rpm packages could be maintained through
> an upgrade. Not necessarily the rpm's themselves but a list of the rpm's
> in the order they were previously installed/deinstalled so the system
> could be more easily restored to a similar state to what it was pre-
> upgrade.

New description:

 It would be helpful for school administrators & "power users" if the
 contents of root's home directory and in particular .bash_history could be
 flagged such that it would not get nuked on upgrades.

 hhardy originally also wrote:

 It would also be helpful if the list of installed rpm packages could be
 maintained through an upgrade. Not necessarily the rpm's themselves but a
 list of the rpm's in the order they were previously installed/deinstalled
 so the system could be more easily restored to a similar state to what it
 was pre-upgrade.

 This latter paragraph is #6432

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Comment:

 Retitling and narrowing, since #6432 has been mostly addressed.

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