Our ober-guru did not wanted a new mine release - so here is
my single fix.

  - (Slave) Rene Rebe <rene@rocklinux.org>

Index: remove.c
===================================================================
--- remove.c	(revision 17)
+++ remove.c	(revision 18)
@@ -70,37 +70,47 @@
 				printf("%s: ", package);
 			printf("removing %s\n", filename);
 		}
-		else
-		if ( ! strncmp(filename, "var/adm/", 8) ) {
-			if ( mode_verbose )
-				printf("%s: moving %s to var/adm/backup\n",
+		else {
+			struct stat statbuf;
+
+			snprintf(realfn1, 1024, "%s/%s", root, filename);
+			if ( stat(realfn1, &statbuf) )
+				printf("WARNING: Could not stat file %s.\n",
+				       realfn1);
+
+			if ( ! strncmp(filename, "var/adm/", 8) &&
+			     ! (S_ISDIR(statbuf.st_mode)) ) {
+				if ( mode_verbose )
+					printf("%s: moving %s to var/adm/backup\n",
 					package, filename);
 
-			snprintf(realfn1, 1024, "%s/var/adm/backup", root);
-			mkdir(realfn1, 0700);
+				snprintf(realfn1, 1024, "%s/var/adm/backup",
+				         root);
+				mkdir(realfn1, 0700);
 
-			snprintf(realfn1, 1024, "%s", filename+8);
-			sscanf(realfn1, "%[^/]/%[^/]", buf1, buf2);
+				snprintf(realfn1, 1024, "%s", filename+8);
+				sscanf(realfn1, "%[^/]/%[^/]", buf1, buf2);
 
-			snprintf(realfn1, 1024, "%s/%s", root, filename);
-			snprintf(realfn2, 1024, "%s/var/adm/backup/%s_%s",
-				root, buf2, buf1);
+				snprintf(realfn1, 1024, "%s/%s", root, filename);
+				snprintf(realfn2, 1024, "%s/var/adm/backup/%s_%s",
+				         root, buf2, buf1);
 
-			if ( rename(realfn1, realfn2) ) {
-				printf("While removing package %s: %s: %s\n",
-				       package, realfn1, strerror(errno));
-				errors++;
+				if ( rename(realfn1, realfn2) ) {
+					printf("While removing package %s: %s: %s\n",
+					       package, realfn1, strerror(errno));
+					errors++;
+				}
 			}
-		}
-		else
-		{
-			if ( mode_verbose )
-				printf("%s: removing %s\n", package, filename);
-			snprintf(realfn1, 1024, "%s/%s", root, filename);
-			if ( remove(realfn1) ) {
-				printf("While removing package %s: %s: %s\n",
-				       package, realfn1, strerror(errno));
-				errors++;
+			else
+			{
+				if ( mode_verbose )
+					printf("%s: removing %s\n",
+					       package, filename);
+				if ( remove(realfn1) ) {
+					printf("While removing package %s: %s: %s\n",
+					       package, realfn1, strerror(errno));
+					errors++;
+				}
 			}
 		}
 	}