RPM roadmapping
Till Maas
opensource at till.name
Thu Aug 9 09:46:20 UTC 2007
On Fr Juli 27 2007, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Not everybody is on rpm-maint list and we'd like to hear the wishes of
> (Fedora) developers/packagers too. So: what have you always wanted to do
> with rpm, but wasn't able to? Or the other way around: what you always
> wished rpm would do for you? What always annoyed you out of your mind?
Another nice feature would be to have all Scriptlets from
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets that are used in
other distros, too, to be available in rpm directly. E.g. instead of having
to copy the code from there, rpm could automatically detect whether or not an
desktop, mimeinfo, shared library, font, icon or texinfo file was installed
or removed and run the appropiate scriptlet. Also having macros that can be
used in %file, that work like %doc for documentation, but for the some of the
filetypes above would be nice, too.
E.g.
%desktopfile %SOURCE1
would copy %SOURCE1 where desktopfiles belong, rename it to %name.desktop and
run the needed scriptlets. For icons and maybe mimeinfo, this may be useful,
too. And also for selinux files, so that they are installed and updated
correctly.
Also it would be nice when there would be some macro that expands to
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir} but is shorter or even better when %{_libdir}
expands to $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir} in %install but to %{_libdir} everywhere
else.
Regards,
Till
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