On Thursday 15 March 2007, Axel Thimm wrote: > So, you suggest to not ship the folder at all? Or create it in %post > to evade the folder entering the manifest? Not at all, if it can't be done right out of the box. > > Marking the dir as %ghost and experimenting how it behaves then could > > also be of (mostly academic) interest. > > Well, %ghosting is for having something in the manifest w/o shipping > it. Not only that; if a %ghost'ed file didn't exist when one installed a package, but exist when that package is erased, it will be removed. You seemed to be concerned about the dir being unowned and not removed on erase - %ghosting would help with it being owned, and in some cases the removal as well. What I don't know is whether ownership/modes of %ghosted but present files are reset on package install/upgrade or not. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
