Package umask issues

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 19:38 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> writes:
> > Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> >> I'm inclined to add:
> >> 
> >> MUST: Packages should not create files in %post. All files should be
> >> accounted for in %files.
> 
> > That isn't going to be easy to fix for all software.  It is desired though.
> 
> Would it work in such cases for the %post routine to just fill in the
> contents of a file that was created (as empty, say) in the regular file
> list?

Sounds like a valid methodology to me. We just need to make sure the
file is taken out when the package is.

~spot
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