Re: showing %ghost files with rpm -q

[Frank Cusack <fcusack fcusack com>]

On February 20, 2007 2:31:39 PM -0500 Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com> 
wrote:
> On 2/19/07, Frank Cusack <fcusack fcusack com> wrote:
> > Sometime after rpm-4.0.2, %ghost files stopped showing up in rpm -ql
> > output. How do I show them?  Is there a change I can make to rpmpopt to
> > show them by default?
> >
> > This is especially annoying because you can do rpm -ql followed by rpm -e
> > and find that files not listed by rpm -ql were removed.
>
> Hmmm, rpm-4.0.2 ios so ancient I cannot remember.
>
> Here's the rpm-4.4.8 behavior, I know of no change for quite some years.
> $ grep '%ghost' filesystem.spec
> %ghost %config(missingok) %verify(not size md5 mode user link rdev
> group mtime) /mnt/cdrom
> %ghost %config(missingok) %verify(not size md5 mode user link rdev
> group mtime) /mnt/floppy
> - %%ghost /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/floppy (fixes #52046)
>
> $ rpm -ql filesystem | grep cdrom
> /mnt/cdrom
> $ rpm -ql --noghost filesystem | grep cdrom
> $
>
> Note that %ghost is displayed unless --noghost is added.

[frank shell:~]$ rpm -qf /var/lib/rpm/__db.001
rpm-4.2.1-9
[frank shell:~]$ rpm -ql rpm | grep __db
[frank shell:~]$ rpm --version
RPM version 4.2.1

But it works correctly in 4.4.7.  So I guess it broke sometime after 4.0.2
and was fixed sometime after 4.2.1.

thanks
-frank