Re: Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Mar 31 janvier 2012 21:32, James Antill a écrit :

>  Also, even if someone could fix rpm to work this out, making this work
> at the yum layer is _much_ harder ... because the repodata does not
> currently specify that /path/to/blah is a regular file or a symlink (and
> if it's a symlink, what it points to).

This, BTW, is a PITA whenever you need to check repo compliance with any
packaging guideline that specifies file location or ownership.

It's not possible to do a simple repoquery to find problem packages, you have
to download every single package with a file name in the wrong location, just
in case it's not actually wrong but contains a compat symlink pointing to the
right file (that may or may not be installed by the same package).

That makes simple repo checks astonishingly long and bandwidth-expensive.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot