[Bug 548522] Review Request: autotest-client - Autotest is a framework for fully automated testing

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--- Comment #5 from James Laska <jlaska at redhat.com> 2010-01-11 14:21:39 EST ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> The remarks about the patches you gave in comment:2 should go in the spec as
> comments near the PatchX lines.

Okay, as directed, I've added my comments to the autotest-client.spec file.

See updated autotest-client.spec -
http://jlaska.fedorapeople.org/autoqa/autotest-client.spec

> Why do you set the default owner/group to autotest? It seems to be wrong, e.g.
> /usr/share/doc/autotest-client-0.11.0/LICENSE does certainly not need to be
> owned by autotest:autotest.
> 
> Also the directory structure does not seem clean, e.g. I guess
> /usr/share/autotest/client/bin/autotest should go to /usr/bin/autotest.    

Unfortunately, it cannot be fully packaged as you might expect new software to
be packaged in Fedora.  Autotest is packaged upstream such that *everything*
lives in it's own root-directory (much like other web-services like mediawiki
or moin).  The source-code for autotest expects this.  We investigated carrying
patches and moving content into a directory structure that was more familiar to
most people, however that patchset would be *enormous*.

I can change the default owner back to root:root, and identify the exactly
sub-directories that autotest requires write access to if you prefer.  But it
may not be possible to have everything root:root under /usr/share/autotest for
autotest-client.

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