Too many unowned directories

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Jan 30 21:26:36 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 21:26 +0000, 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.
> 	Mirek

Good point, since we don't install the Requires at the same time we're
installing the BuildRequires to do the build that would be harder.

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Jesse Keating
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