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

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Op zondag 13 januari 2013 13:26:51 schreef Colin Guthrie:
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> 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