packaging files via symlinks

[Florian La Roche]

Hello all,

Update on the results:

On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 04:37:26PM +0100, Florian La Roche wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've added a check to pyrpm to detect the cases where
> a symlink to a directory is used within a directory name
> to package files into a rpm. The patch for this is at:
> http://www.jur-linux.org/git/?p=cvs-pyrpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=3cfefdc1496c0ee6b0ca925430af7d45f8531ece
> Let me know if you can speed this test further up and know
> further python or algorithm improvements.
> 
> We knew such a symlink was often used to package e.g. /etc/init.d/<service>,
> but running this on Fedora-devel shows that also other
> packages are affected:
> 
> symlink /etc/init.d from chkconfig-1.3.37-1.i386.rpm is used as directory name in conmux-0.0-6.493svn.fc7.noarch.rpm aiccu-2007.01.15-3.fc8.i386.rpm tomcat5-5.5.23-9jpp.4.fc8.i386.rpm cobbler-0.6.3-2.fc9.noarch.rpm func-0.13-3.fc9.noarch.rpm zabbix-agent-1.4.2-3.fc8.i386.rpm varnish-1.1.1-3.fc8.i386.rpm jetty-5.1.12-1jpp.7.fc8.i386.rpm dkms-2.0.17.5-1.fc8.noarch.rpm ldirectord-2.1.2-2.fc8.i386.rpm monotone-server-0.37-3.fc9.i386.rpm dircproxy-1.2.0-0.6beta2.fc8.i386.rpm fuse-2.7.0-8.fc8.i386.rpm wifiroamd-1.12-1.fc8.noarch.rpm conman-0.1.9.2-7.fc7.i386.rpm sqlgrey-1.7.5-1.fc7.noarch.rpm edac-utils-0.9-7.fc8.i386.rpm zabbix-1.4.2-3.fc8.i386.rpm cyphesis-0.5.13-2.fc8.i386.rpm heartbeat-2.1.2-2.fc8.i386.rpm

Not sure we want to fix all of these, maybe FESCO wants to decide this first.

> symlink /usr/lib/tcl8.4 from tcl-8.4.15-5.fc8.i386.rpm is used as directory name in tkdnd-1.0a2-9.fc8.i386.rpm amsn-0.96-7.fc7.i386.rpm tbcload-1.4-5.20061030cvs.fc8.i386.rpm

This is going to get fixed with tcl8.5.

> symlink /usr/share/pharosc/alliance/makevbe/ssxlib013 from pharosc-alliance-8.3-1.fc8.noarch.rpm is used as directory name in pharosc-alliance-devel-8.3-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
> symlink /usr/share/pharosc/alliance/vbe/rgalib013_0 from pharosc-alliance-8.3-1.fc8.noarch.rpm is used as directory name in pharosc-alliance-devel-8.3-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
> symlink /usr/share/pharosc/alliance/vbe/ssxlib013_0 from pharosc-alliance-8.3-1.fc8.noarch.rpm is used as directory name in pharosc-alliance-devel-8.3-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
> symlink /usr/share/pharosc/alliance/vbe/sxlib013_0 from pharosc-alliance-8.3-1.fc8.noarch.rpm is used as directory name in pharosc-alliance-devel-8.3-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
> symlink /usr/share/pharosc/alliance/vbe/vgalib013_0 from pharosc-alliance-8.3-1.fc8.noarch.rpm is used as directory name in pharosc-alliance-devel-8.3-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
> symlink /usr/share/pharosc/alliance/vbe/vsclib013_0 from pharosc-alliance-8.3-1.fc8.noarch.rpm is used as directory name in pharosc-alliance-devel-8.3-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
> symlink /usr/share/pharosc/alliance/vbe/vxlib013_0 from pharosc-alliance-8.3-1.fc8.noarch.rpm is used as directory name in pharosc-alliance-devel-8.3-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
> symlink /usr/share/pharosc/alliance/vbe/wsclib013_0 from pharosc-alliance-8.3-1.fc8.noarch.rpm is used as directory name in pharosc-alliance-devel-8.3-1.fc8.noarch.rpm

Only affects one package.

> symlink /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets from docbook-style-xsl-1.73.2-4.fc9.noarch.rpm is used as directory name in docbook-style-xsl-1.73.2-4.fc9.noarch.rpm dblatex-0.2.7-16.fc9.noarch.rpm

docbook-style-xsl could drop the versioned directory.


regards,

Florian La Roche


> 
> I'll add a bugzilla report for tkdnd, amsn, tbcload,
> pharosc, docbook-style-xsl, dblatex if noone are already filed.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Florian La Roche
>