Is RPM now stricter about checking for file conflicts?

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

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On 31/10/2012 21:38, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 10/29/2012 04:06 PM, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
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>> On 10/29/2012 05:39 PM, Petr Pisar wrote:
>>> On 2012-10-29, Michel Alexandre Salim
>>> <salimma at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>> On 10/28/2012 04:08 AM, Paul Howarth wrote: Is there any
>>>> RPM-fu I can use to extract the ownership and permissions
>>>> from the package for comparison?
>>>> 
>>> rpm -q -lv -p foo.rpm
>>> 
>> Aha, thanks!
>> 
>> - - google-musicmanager has /usr/bin with 644 permission;
>> filesystem has 444 - - VirtualBox-4.2 has /lib/modules;
>> filesystem has /usr/lib/modules with /lib -> /usr/lib
> 
> /lib/modules vs /usr/lib/modules with /lib -> /usr/lib link does
> not cause a conflict, the different permissions of the modules
> directory does. The right thing for VirtualBox to do is to not try
> to own such directories in the first place (it claims to own
> /usr/bin, stuff under /usr/share etc too)
> 
Yep. They fixed the directory ownership in SVN already; I'm now
creating a local clone so I can examine the code more closely, and if
necessary, submit more patches -- I suspect they now have another
(more trivial) problem - not depending on the packages that should
provide those directories (e.g. hicolor-icon-theme)

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Michel Alexandre Salim
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