Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Reading Mandrake HOWTO I got impression that file marked as
> %config(missingok) is not required to exist at package build time - as
> implied by sentence "The %config(missingok) is frequently used for files
> like /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S55named where the (non-)existence of the symlink
> is part of the configuration in %post,". But it does not work this way,
> if I try to add non-existent file I get an error that file does not
> exist ;-)

After G.Rousse pointed out %ghost mistakes, I've looked for good
doc source, and now these sentences are taken from documentation
taken from RPM sourcecode distribution (./doc/manual/spec).

>From the full sentence, I don't agree with you: it's not stated
that the file need not to exist at package build time, it's
stated that it needs not to exist on the installed machine, nor
at uninstall time. It's also stated that it needs not to exist at
"install time", which is not very precise to me (yet it would
have been meaningful in case of an upgrade).

So I think your "bugreport" regarding the mdk howto is not valid.


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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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