Ville Skyttä wrote:
On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 12:13 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
Should we make it a packaging policy that packages must own all
directories and files that it installs in order to avoid umask 077
problems like this where the installed software is effectively broken?
+1, although I thought that already is a policy at least in Extras. But
not _all_ directories it installs, only those that are not owned by its
prerequisite packages.
Hmm you are right, but that makes it more difficult to make an automated
test. I guess both tests will require a chroot and installing all deps.
Also the latter bug is %post creates files with umask 077, leading to
similar breakage. Should then the rule be "use umask within %post if it
creates files?"
I think it would be simpler and cleaner to have rpm execute all
scriptlets with let's say a 022 umask, and make that umask value
configurable in eg. /usr/lib/rpm(/$vendor)/macros.
This isn't a solution for older distributions, this umask problem is
troubling for RHEL too, and we can't push this rpm change there.
Can rpmdiff check for this in the future?
Are you referring to the rpmdiff distributed with rpmlint, or something
else?
Automated tests in general.
Warren Togami
wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx
