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List:       opensuse-packaging
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-packaging] rpmlint rules for /var/run
From:       Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk () suse ! de>
Date:       2018-12-10 15:02:31
Message-ID: 20181210150231.GA29192 () suse ! de
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On Mon, Dec 10, Ludwig Nussel wrote:

> Thorsten Kukuk schrieb:
> > [...]
> > In general, %ghost for tmpfiles on tmpfs doesn't make any sense
> > and only makes later a lot of trouble. This should be completly
> 
> For example?

Ever tried to replace a %ghost entry with a real file?

> > forbidden. And robustness is here more important than the wish of
> 
> Well, if robustness is the main argument then a method that requires
> packagers to maintain file information in two places and to add fragile
> scripting sections hardly reaches that goal.

Ok, with your tmpfiles/%ghost approach, we have this method, which
requires packages to maintain file information in two places.

So, I agree with you that we should not maintain it in two places,
so drop the %ghost entries and only use tmpfiles for /run.

  Thorsten

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