On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 19:38 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Warren Togami <wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > >> I'm inclined to add: > >> > >> MUST: Packages should not create files in %post. All files should be > >> accounted for in %files. > > > That isn't going to be easy to fix for all software. It is desired though. > > Would it work in such cases for the %post routine to just fill in the > contents of a file that was created (as empty, say) in the regular file > list? Sounds like a valid methodology to me. We just need to make sure the file is taken out when the package is. ~spot -- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Senior Sales Engineer || GPG ID: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my!
