gournet review (was Re: i18n guidelines?)

Toshio Kuratomi toshio at tiki-lounge.com
Sun Apr 24 00:41:39 UTC 2005


On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 04:02:20PM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 17:45 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > %ghost %{_datadir}/applications/gourmet.desktop
> > 
> > %ghost is usually used for files that will be created after RPM
> > installation but need to be erased when the package is removed.
> 
> OK. I thought it was for marking files in the buildroot that the rpm
> wasn't suppose to package.
> 
That's %exclude.

And according to this RedHat page, there's a preference to delete in the
%install than to %exclude in %files::
  http://www.fedora.redhat.com/participate/developers-guide/s1-rpm-more-guidelines.html

-Toshio




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