/usr/lib/debug ownership

[Alec Leamas]

On 02/16/2013 11:41 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 02/16/2013 11:44 AM, Alec Leamas wrote:
>> On 02/15/2013 11:58 PM, Till Maas wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:50:28AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>>
>>>> - make a script to identify all the packages that are broken and
>>>>    shipping debug stuff.
>>> AT least for the directory a simple yum call should suffice:
>>> yum --disablerepo '*' --enablerepo fedora\*  whatprovides 
>>> /usr/lib/debug
>>>
>>> But it shows that a lot (all?) debuginfo packages own the directory
>>> which probably needs to be fixed in rpm itself.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Till
>> I have filed a bug against filesystem: BZ 911831.
>>
>> I get 46 owners of /usr/lib/debug, that can't be all debug packages...
>>
>> Shall we file a bug against rpm, saying that claiming the complete path
>> doesn't really work? I see the problems here, if rpm shouldn't claim the
>> complete path /usr/lib/debug/lib/whatever, the part to claim is more or
>> less arbitrary.
>
>
> Multiple owned directories might not be "packaging purist clean" :) 
> but since -debuginfo packages are auto-generated and thus kinda 
> guaranteed to be non-conflicting, it's just the less ugly option when 
> the alternative is leaving empty directories behind. Which is what 
> would happen if -debuginfo packages didn't own *all* the directories 
> they put files into.
>
>     - Panu -
>
>
Well, I try to be practical (believe it or not). This explanation looks 
perfectly sound to me (although  it still seems inconsistent that 
filesystem owns /usr/src/debug but not /usr/lib/debug).

I ran into this while automating some tests about directory ownership in 
fedora-review. If we all agree that Panu's position is OK, I would be 
more than happy to just exclude /usr/l{lib,src}/debug from the ownership 
checks. With that we should be able to close this discussion.

However,  at least Kevin had other ideas. So did I, but I'm flexible and 
have changed my mind  :)

cheers,

--alec

cheers!

--alec