packaging/reproducibility: /var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db should be created by systemd-tmpfiles

[joebonrichie]

As soon as any transactions occur then the sha of /var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db will change. Some package managers will then report the installed package as broken as the expected sha sums of the installed files do not match the upstream package.

1. Does /var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db need to be installed? Can packagekit automatically create if the file if it doesn't exist?
2. If not then the file should be created by a systemd-tmpfiles snippet as part of meson install.

[sidt4]

I guess /var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db should not packaged. It can be generated at runtime (from what I've seen)

Debian doesn't do so, but appears like Fedora does.

Debian unstable:

$ dpkg -S /var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db

Fedora 39:

$ rpm -qf /var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db 
PackageKit-1.2.6-11.fc39.x86_64

Source: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/PackageKit/blob/rawhide/f/PackageKit.spec#_203

Which distro are you using ?