On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Paul Howarth wrote: >> 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.
Thanks for the clarification. > 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. Is that needed if the package init script deals with this already? (eg xl2tpd will create /var/run/xl2tpd if it does not exist) Paul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
