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Hello Fedora Devs,<br>
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I'm currently going through the pre-review process for adding Ingres
to the Fedora distribution
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578024">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578024</a>). I'm getting
some conflicting information for a couple of issues and I was hoping
for some clarification.<br>
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Firstly, "%defattr()". The standard says it should be
"%defattr(-.root,root-)" unless there is a good reason for it not to
be. The vast majority of the files included in the Ingres packages
are owned by the user 'ingres', which seems (IMHO) to be a good
reason to use "%defattr(-,ingres,ingres,-)". One reviewer
disagreed, one agreed this was probably OK but that I should check.
What's the consensus here?<br>
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Next, use of -f in the %files section. There are over 1700 files
between the 4 RPMs and the
ownership and permission for each file is maintained by one of the
build tools. The file lists are generated as part of the build
process, not stored statically in the source.
In order to add the file lists to the SPEC files, I would need to do
full build
of the exact same source outside of RPM, generate the files list,
add them to
SPEC file and then run the RPM build. This is a fairly large over
head for each
update and makes maintenance a much larger task and much more
susceptible to human error. By using the -f flag, I can
generate the lists at build time using the existing manifest and
they will
always be correct. %files -f is also used by PostgreSQL so it's not
completely outlawed. Am I OK to use it?<br>
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Thanks in advance for your help.<br>
<br>
J<br>
<br>
Jay Hankinson<br>
Emerging Technologies Team<br>
Ingres Corp <br>
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