On Wed, Mar 29, 2006, Michael van Elst wrote: >On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 06:27:07PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: >> I'm building a package for the current courier-imap, and the >> tarball's sample courier-imap.spec file uses something I've never >> seen before in the %files section ``%ghost %attr(600,...''. >> >> What is the meaning of %ghost? > >%ghost specifies a file that does not exist in the RPM archive >but is added to the RPM database. It might be created by the >package and will be removed later with the package.
Interesting. It the courier-imap package, this refers to pid and lock files which are actually created, but dynamic. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. -- Robert Heinlein ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List openpkg-dev@openpkg.org
