Too many unowned directories
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Feb 3 18:22:47 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 13:21 -0500, James Antill wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 00:36 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> >
> > > Jesse Keating píše v Pá 30. 01. 2009 v 13:22 -0800:
> > >> Why not fail the build if unowned directories are found, just like we do
> > >> for unowned files? That way you catch it at build time before you try
> > >> and do something useful with the build.
> > > How do we determine which directory is unowned and which is provided by
> > > a dependency? If we don't, every package would have to own /usr.
> >
> > It'd be possible to turn the topmost unowned directory into a file (well,
> > directory) dependency. Either at build time, which would cause a big pile
> > of new file dependencies in the metadata, or rpm could generate them at
> > runtime. The problem with runtime generated dependencies is just that yum
> > & the like wouldn't be able to resolve them without fairly big changes.
>
> It'd be painful to have everything have a "Requires: /usr" (or
> whatever) as it would make filelists mandatory for every update ... but
> it would just work, with yum.
Not that I'd suggest this but we _could_ add dirs to the primary
filelist....
-sv
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