On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 10:54 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > On Lun 9 janvier 2006 05:51, Peter Jones wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 19:21 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > >> Well, if Fedora is serious about this rule, should not Fedora's rpm be > >> patched to emit a warning when operating on a dir owned by something > >> else ? > > > > rpm knows about packages, not repos. > > rpm knows about its db state when performing installations/uninstallations. > > I meant a warning at rpm -U/-i or -e time not at rpmbuild time Then you're notifying the wrong people that something is wrong. If you're going to automagically probe for this and raise some error/warning/notification, it needs to happen when the package is added to a repo. Before then it's incorrect, and after then it doesn't help to know it's busted. -- Peter
