RPM and files installed

[Jesse Keating]

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 15:26, Daniel Yek wrote:
> How do I make sure that files created during rpm installation are being
> recorded as belonging to the package? I'm not sure, but I think if rpm
> %post install script created some symbolic links, they might not be
> recorded as installed by the rpm package. (Or are they?)
>
> How RPM keeps track of files created by scripts? Does it trap system calls
> to record all created files and symbolic links? If not, what one needs to
> do to make sure that all files and symbolic links created are being
> accounted for properly?

Simple.  Don't create files in %post.  They aren't tracked.  If you need a 
symlink, do it in %install and then track the symlink in %files.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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