CentOS - Apr 2007 - seamonkey on Centos 2.1 deletes itself!

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, John wrote:
> [root at magpie root]#
> hm. What does
/usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/mozilla-rebuild-databases.pl?
> Why is this?
reading the whole script, it is regenerating 'chrome' files 
with only the master instance running, presumeably to prevent 
wayward children from bollixing the process.

not deleting itself, of course, as the title suggests -- just 
parts of what are essentially configuration matters, which 
may need migration as versions and releases change.

-- Russ

Well, partly:
I've been "converting" a RHL 7.3 system to approximately Centos
2.1, so found
it necessary to "rpm -Va"

I was more than a little surprised at this:
[root at magpie root]# rpm -V seamonkey
missing    /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/browser
missing    /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/browser/content
missing   
/usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/browser/content/overlays.rdf
missing    /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/browser/skin
missing   
/usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/browser/skin/stylesheets.rdf
missing    /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/communicator
missing   
/usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/communicator/content
missing   
/usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/communicator/content/overlays.rdf
missing    /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/cookie
missing    /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/cookie/content
missing   
/usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/cookie/content/overlays.rdf
missing    /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/editor
missing    /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/editor/content
missing   
/usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/editor/content/overlays.rdf
missing    /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/global
missing    /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/global/content
missing   
/usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/global/content/overlays.rdf
missing    /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/global/skin
missing   
/usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/global/skin/stylesheets.rdf
missing    /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/navigator
missing    /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/navigator/content
missing   
/usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo/navigator/content/overlays.rdf

etc

Reinstalling the packages did no good:


[root at magpie root]# rpm -q --scripts seamonkey
postinstall scriptlet (through /bin/sh):
# run ldconfig before regxpcom
/sbin/ldconfig >/dev/null 2>/dev/null

if [ -f /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/mozilla-rebuild-databases.pl ]; then
    /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/mozilla-rebuild-databases.pl
fi
preuninstall scriptlet (through /bin/sh):
# is a final removal?
if [ "$1" == "0" ]; then
  /bin/rm -rf /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo
  /bin/rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/*.rdf
fi
postuninstall scriptlet (through /bin/sh):
/sbin/ldconfig >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
# was this an upgrade?
if [ "$1" == "2" ]; then
  if [ -f /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/mozilla-rebuild-databases.pl ]; 
then
      /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/mozilla-rebuild-databases.pl
  fi
fi
[root at magpie root]#
hm. What does /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/mozilla-rebuild-databases.pl?

Oh, it does

[root at magpie root]# head 
-20 /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/mozilla-rebuild-databases.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

use File::Path;
use File::Copy;
use File::Glob ":glob";
use POSIX ":sys_wait_h";

$timeout = 60;

%{ENV}->{"MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME"}="/usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8";
%{ENV}->{"LD_LIBRARY_PATH"}="/usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8";
%{ENV}->{"MOZ_DISABLE_GNOME"}="1";

umask 022;

if ( -f "/usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/regxpcom" )
{
    # remove all of the old files
    rmtree("/usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo");
    unlink </usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/*.rdf>;
[root at magpie root]#

Why is this?