[Mageia-dev] RFC: task-obsolete and README.*.urpmi enhancement

Thu Jan 5 17:49:43 CET 2012

On 05.01.2012 14:54, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+> Le 04/01/2012 20:13, Luc Menut a écrit :
+>> Le 04/01/2012 17:20, Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
+>>>> 1) add support for optional README.*.urpmi (%ghost in spec):
+>>>> This will allow to build this README.*.urpmi at install time in %pre,
+>>>> %post or %trigger only when it's necessary.
+>>> That will create files on the system unknown from rpm database, and
+>>> unknown from urpmi too.
+>>
+>> nope, %ghost files are known from rpm database.
+>> rpm -qpl task-obsolete-1-1.mga2.noarch.rpm
+>> /usr/share/doc/task-obsolete
+>> /usr/share/doc/task-obsolete/README.null-dummy.obsolete.urpmi
+>> /usr/share/doc/task-obsolete/README.null.obsolete.urpmi
+> Then the database will always contains entries for some files that only
+> will potentially exist on the systeme. The whole idea of conditionnaly
+> creating files in post-installation seems a bad idea.
+
+Those already exist for all localization which is not installed in your
+system. However, I do agree it is significantly worse in this case as
+the user can wonder why a *documentation* file that seems important by
+its filename is missing.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+