[Bug]: podman preuninstall script needs to handle SCOOP_GLOBAL folder

[hgkamath]

Prerequisites

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• I have searched all issues/PRs to ensure it has not already been reported or fixed.
• I have verified that I am using the latest version of Scoop and corresponding bucket.

Package Name

podman

Expected/Current Behaviour

Description

• Error messages on updating podman package, see logs below
• I think it has something to do with the scoop folder being elsewhere.
• My SCOOP_GLOBAL and SCOOP folder have been set so that the scoop apps are installed in their own folders
• I usually
  • Login as a unprivileged user of group USERS, AUTHENTICATED_USERS on Windows-11
  • Open a powershell-5.1 terminal as a admin user and run scoop update * and scoop update -g *. The process as a user with admin privileges
• The following error happens even if I delete the entire folder trees of "C:\Users\admin\.config\containers" and "C:\Users\admin\.local\share\\containers" inclusive.

Logs

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>  scoop update --force -g podman
podman: 5.4.2 -> 5.4.2 (global)
Updating one outdated app:
Updating 'podman' (5.4.2 -> 5.4.2)
Downloading new version
Loading podman-5.4.2-setup.exe from cache
Checking hash of podman-5.4.2-setup.exe ... ok.
Running pre_uninstall script...Move-Item : Access to the path 'C:\Users\admin\.config\containers\podman' is denied.
At line:8 char:5
+     Move-Item "$Env:UserProfile\.config\containers\*" "$dir\config"
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : WriteError: (C:\Users\admin\.config\containers\podman:DirectoryInfo) [Move-Item], IOExce
   ption
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MoveDirectoryItemIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.MoveItemCommand

Move-Item : Access to the path 'C:\Users\admin\.local\share\containers\podman\machine' is denied.
At line:13 char:9
+         Move-Item "$Env:UserProfile\.local\share\containers\$_\*" "$d ...
+         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : WriteError: (C:\Users\admin\...\podman\machine:DirectoryInfo) [Move-Item], IOException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MoveDirectoryItemIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.MoveItemCommand

ERROR Cannot move 'C:\Users\admin\.local\share\containers\podman\*' to 'C:\vol\scoop_01\scoopg\apps\podman\5.4.2\data\podman'
Move-Item : Access to the path 'C:\Users\admin\.local\share\containers\storage\containers' is denied.
At line:13 char:9
+         Move-Item "$Env:UserProfile\.local\share\containers\$_\*" "$d ...
+         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : WriteError: (C:\Users\admin\...rage\containers:DirectoryInfo) [Move-Item], IOException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MoveDirectoryItemIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.MoveItemCommand

ERROR Cannot move 'C:\Users\admin\.local\share\containers\storage\*' to 'C:\vol\scoop_01\scoopg\apps\podman\5.4.2\data\storage'
done.
Uninstalling 'podman' (5.4.2)
Removing shim 'podman.shim'.
Removing shim 'podman.exe'.
Unlinking C:\vol\scoop_01\scoopg\apps\podman\current
Installing 'podman' (5.4.2) [64bit] from 'main' bucket
Loading podman-5.4.2-setup.exe from cache
Running pre_install script...done.
Running installer script...done.
Linking C:\vol\scoop_01\scoopg\apps\podman\current => C:\vol\scoop_01\scoopg\apps\podman\5.4.2
Creating shim for 'podman'.
Persisting data
Persisting config
Persisting connections
Running post_install script...done.
'podman' (5.4.2) was installed successfully!
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>


PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> echo $Env:SCOOP_GLOBAL $Env:SCOOP
C:\vol\scoop_01\scoopg
C:\vol\scoop_01\scoop

Steps to Reproduce

- 1) create an admin user (member of ```Administrators`` group) and regular user (member of ```Users`` & ```Authenticated_Users``` group)
- 2) as admin, create a new scoop roots, install podman as a global app
- 3) login as the regular user
- 4) open powershell-5.1 admin terminal
- 5) run  ```scoop update -g "podman"``` or ```scoop update -g --force "podman"``` 

Possible Solution

• Said error messages are disconcerting, one wishes to see no error messages when installing.
• List of alternatives
  • (1) If podman uses these folders, let them be, maybe user intentionally wants to leave things under the admin user
  • (2) let user make their own Junction/symlinks to where they want their configuration and storage to be.
  • (3) putting userdata under C:\vol\scoop_01\scoopg\apps\podman\5.4.2\ seems WRONG, Shouldn't they go under C:\vol\scoop_01\scoopg\persist\podman\ ie the persists directory, in which user-data persists between scoop updates
  • (4) perhaps podman should use podman global variables of its own that a user should set so that it the pre-uninstaller picks up and does the appropriate things. It may be that a user may decide to podman config, images and volumes in their own Drive/Volume.

Scoop and Buckets Version

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>  scoop --version
Current Scoop version:
859d1db5 (HEAD -> master, tag: v0.5.2, origin/master, origin/HEAD) chore(release): Bump to version 0.5.2 (#6080)

'main' bucket:
510cef7be (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) suanpan: Update to version 3.7

'extras' bucket:
29d2a8e44c (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) cursor: Update to version 0.48.8 (#15252)

'versions' bucket:
c6dc197a5 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) qbittorrent-nightly: Update to version 14418525774

'java' bucket:
dfe69e26 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) openjdk-ea: Update to version 25-18-ea

Scoop Config

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> scoop config | Format-List


last_update  : 2025-04-12T20:26:39.7757160+05:30
scoop_branch : master
scoop_repo   : https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop

PowerShell Version

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      5.1.22621.4391
PSEdition                      Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion                   10.0.22621.4391
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion              3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

Additional Softwares

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