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Description of problem: When building package that contains %ghost <some_file> and if this file is not created during build process, rpmbuild fails with RPM build errors: File not found: ...BUILDROOT/package-v-r/<some_file> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-build-4.6.0-1.fc10.x86_64 How reproducible: allways Steps to Reproduce: 1.see description 2. 3. Actual results: rpmbuild fails Expected results: rpmbuild works Additional info:
Fixed upstream. rpmbuild no more complains if file listed as %ghost is not present in build root.
The ghost files are required to be present at build-time for populating the file's metadata with some semi-sane values. If we want to permit really non-existent ghost files, the stat() info needs to be faked out to avoid completely bogus stuff like this (which is what you get now if a %ghost doesn't exist at build-time): [pmatilai@turre RPMS]$ rpm -qplv ghosttest-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm ?--------- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 /tmp/nofile
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
rpm 4.8.0-beta1 in rawhide permits creating %ghost's without actually requiring fake files in buildroot.