[Fedora-packaging] PHP packaging policy notes

[Christopher Stone]

On 7/4/06, Tim Jackson <lists at timj.co.uk> wrote:
> Christopher Stone wrote:
> > On 7/4/06, Christopher Stone <chris.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> BTW, I have updated my pear spec template
> >> http://tkmame.retrogames.com/fedora-extras/spectemplate-pear.spec to
> >> %ghost %{peardir}/.* rather than rm'ing them during the install.
> >
> > %exclude might be better here, I think %ghost might try to remove them
> > on uninstall, but I'm not sure why pear puts them there to begin with?
>
> Because when we do stuff in RPM build roots, PEAR has nowhere to write
> its package data (e.g. list of installed packages) so it sets up all
> those files. They are not needed in any way.
>
> Arguably the --packagingroot option should omit the generation of these
> files full stop. Might be worth discussing upstream.

Yes, please, we should not have to deal with this in every single pear
spec file.

>
> > Either way, I think those files should be in either %exclude or
> > %ghost rather than rm'd during the install process.
>
> I'm not sure what difference it makes whether they are rm'd or excluded.
> They certainly don't want to be %ghost.

I'll change the spec to %exclude and then we can just remove that once
upstream fixes pear/pecl commands from generating those files.