Proposal (and yes, I'm willing to do stuff!): Must Use More Macros

Casey Dahlin cdahlin at redhat.com
Fri Jun 5 17:55:41 UTC 2009


Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
>>
>> I don't know how hard it would be to fix rpm to allow for that though.
> 
> Just off the top of my head, this doesn't feel like something rpm should
> be in charge of. To me it seems more likely that we need something in a
> base/core rpm that installs an inotify script for system dirs that does
> what it should when something is dropped into it...?
> 

Ugh, no. We don't need another running service to do this. Just have rpm do it as part of its post install and you don't need to involve inotify; it knows a file showed up because it put it there a few milliseconds ago.

--CJD




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