On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:42:11 -0800, Daniel Yek wrote:
Thanks for the "%ghost", but is it documented? I didn't find it in the following URL after a quick search: http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-inside.html
Here:
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpm-inside-files-list-directives.html
The snapshot is a community enhanced/extended online version of Ed Bailey's original book.
Regarding "touch"...Can one create redundant list of file in %file without actually doing anything with it in %install? What would happen to "rpm -qpl" in this case?
All files in the %files section must exist in the BuildRoot. Else rpmbuild refuses to build your package.
Lets say a software package is utilizing utilities to install icon resources, etc. Lets says xdg-utils is bundled and used during RPM installation.
http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/
xdg-utils scripts installed a bunch of files at unknown locations. What can I do to have those files remain tracked? If I can't read the scripts and create a list of all possible installation locations, is there something else I can do?
At package build-time you would install everything *only* into the temporary BuildRoot. At the end of the %install section you can list the BuildRoot contents and create matching file lists for the %files section, where you can include generated list files on-the-fly.
Everything done outside the package BuildRoot and/or applied to your installed system after package installation is beyond the scope of RPM.