On 24/11/10 16:07, Paul Wouters wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Petr Lautrbach wrote:
>> - Many .spec files currently own subdirs of /var/run. These need to be
>> updated to %ghost those dirs only, so that the automatic removal of
>> these files/dirs on boot doesnt cause rpm to complain. The list of packages
>> which own such files/subdir you find on the aforementioned feature
>> page. I will mass-file bugs against these packages later tonight,
>> requesting the %ghosting of these entries. For more information on the
>> %ghost directive in .spec files see this page:
>>
>>
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpm-inside-files-list-directives.h...
>
> I think this is not needed. Files in /var/lock and /var/run are already cleaned by
> rc.sysinit during boot process hence they should be already %ghost-ed now.
This remark makes no sense? If they "already" needed ghosting, then the
mass-file should
be needed?
Files are directories are currently treated differently. The initscripts
clean out files from /var/lock and /var/run but leave directories alone.
So any package containing a file in these directories should already
have it marked as %ghost as it will already disappear at boot time.
However, most affected packages probably have directories rather than
files here, and *those* shouldn't need %ghost-ing because re-creating
them using a tmpfiles.d/*.conf file should be enough to keep rpm happy.
Paul.