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We have several directories that are created on the fly, and which only contain state relevant to a running libvirtd process (all located in /var/run). Since the directories are created as needed, and make no sense without a running libvirtd, we want them deleted if libvirt is uninstalled. And in F15 and newer, /var/run is on tmpfs (forcing us to recreate on the fly); which means that someone trying to verify a complete rpm will fail if the directory does not currently exist because libvirtd has not been started since boot. The solution, then, is to mark the directories as %ghost, so that rpm knows that we own them and will clean it up if libvirt is uninstalled, but will no longer create the directory for us at install, nor complain at verify time if the directory does not exist. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656611. * libvirt.spec.in (%files): Add %ghost to temporary directories that we don't install, but want cleaned up on libvirt removal.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>