[Kimchi-devel] [PATCH v2] Create empty files on rpm build

[Kevin Zander]

On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 17:19 -0300, Aline Manera wrote:
> 
> 
> On 13/04/2015 17:00, Crístian Viana wrote:
> 
> > I tested this patch on Fedora 21 and, after removing Kimchi, some
> > files were still left on the system.
> > 
> > 
> > I installed the RPM, started the Kimchi server, stopped the server
> > and then I removed the RPM. Here's the final output of my tests:
> 
> Yeap! I talked to Ramon about that.
> Those 2 cert files are created automatically according to the user
> configuration, ie, if the user provides them Kimchi will not generate
> those files.
> So they may exist or not on package removal.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > [kimchi at localhost ~]$ ls /etc/kimchi/
> > distros.d  kimchi-cert.pem  kimchi.conf  kimchi-key.pem
> >  nginx.conf.in  nginx_kimchi.conf
> > [kimchi at localhost ~]$ sudo yum remove kimchi
> > [...]
> > [kimchi at localhost ~]$ ls /etc/kimchi/
> > 
> > kimchi-cert.pem  kimchi-key.pem
> > [kimchi at localhost ~]$

Why not use a %preun/%postun script in the spec file? Test for the
existence of files that Kimchi can generate and remove accordingly.