[Mageia-dev] Help needed: rpmlint checks not working

Sun Jan 13 23:15:00 CET 2013

Op zondag 13 januari 2013 13:26:51 schreef Colin Guthrie:
+[...]
+> Ghosting achieves very little in this case. Does xen automatically
+> create those directories happily without the need for tmpfiles? If so
+> I'd personally not package them at all (as it just continues to show up
+> in the list generated by the urpmf command listed earlier as a false
+> positive).
+> 
+> While ghosting does have the advantage that rpm -qf will return sort of
+> valid results, it does make this transition period more difficult as it
+> would mean our "list of packages" would never get smaller.
+> 
+> I'm also not totally convinced that the rpm -qf use case is benefitial
+> enough to keep package %files+%ghosts synced with tmpfiles contents,
+> especially as the tmpfiles become part of the upstream package.
+> 
+> If it could somehow become automated (i.e. via a packaging script) then
+> I'd be happy to support that.
+> 
+> So, question. Does xen actually work? There appears to be no tmpfiles in
+> it and thus I don't see what creates those folders unless xen does it
+> internally (i.e. like gdm does).
+> 
+> Can you confirm it's OK without tmpfiles and I'll manually filter it out
+> of my urpmf command. If you also feel there is no real point in ghosting
+> here specifically and not in any of the other packages, please do remove
+> the ghosts as it'll save that manual filtering.
+
+thanks, i'll take this under advisement
+