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
