[Fedora-packaging] PHP packaging policy notes

[Tim Jackson]

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.

> 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.

Tim