minimal requirements for subpackage named common

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Apr 28 16:06:59 UTC 2015


On 04/28/2015 03:40 PM, Florian Festi wrote:
> On 04/28/2015 03:15 PM, Jan Chaloupka wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a package (kubernetes) which I would like to decompose into 2
>> subpackages A and B. Problem is A and B share some files and directories
>> so installing both of them on the same machine results in file
>> conflicts.
>
> Another way of avoiding this problem is to make sure these files are
> 100% identical. This includes modification time, user, permissions and
> of course content.
This is not correct.

Time stamps should not matter. If these matter now, something has 
regressed in rpm etc. (We've discussed this many times with Panu). 
Contents matter, these need to be 100% identical.

Ralf




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