[Bug 522895] New Package for Dogtag PKI: pki-native-tools

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--- Comment #3 from Matthew Harmsen <mharmsen at redhat.com>  2009-11-04 19:28:11 EDT ---
Comment From  John Dennis (jdennis at redhat.com)  2009-11-02 15:16:44 EDT:

The package pki-native-tools is doing a number of bogus things. It installs
these executable scripts:

/usr/bin/pkiarch
/usr/bin/pkidist
/usr/bin/pkiflavor
/usr/bin/pkiname

whose job is to echo (hardcoded) configuration information. This is not how we
store and query configuration information in Fedora (and RHEL). This
information should be located in files under /etc.

pkiarch returns 'i386', pkidist returns 'fc11' on my machine,

Each of the above executable needs to be removed and replaced with mechanisms
appropriate to our distributions (e.g. store the information in a configuration
file, marked as %config, and read the information out of that file) and/or use
the existing mechanisms to determine the arch, release, etc. If the packages
need executables like pkiarch and pkidist then it's an indication of bad
packaging practices elsewhere which also will need to be corrected.

The package pki-native-tools also installs a symbolic link

/usr/bin/pkiperl

which points to /usr/bin/perl

Then all the perl scripts in all the pki packages have this in their shebang
line:

#!/usr/bin/pkiperl

This also is bad packaging practice. If you need a specific version of perl
then that needs to be specified in the spec file so that rpm can resolve those
dependencies. Scripts then invoke /usr/bin/perl. Setting up links in /usr/bin
to specific versions of interpreters is likely to create all sorts of problems
in RPM managed systems.

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