On Lun 9 janvier 2006 16:16, Peter Jones wrote: > 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. Do you really believe it's not the user problem if its system is about to switch to a state where we know problem may happen ? > 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. Sure > Before then it's incorrect, Why ? > and after then it doesn't help to know it's busted. Of course it helps, do you really believe we catch every problem at the packaging stage ? You could as well advocate removal of every single warning/error in live systems, since problems should be fixed before software is shipped (in an ideal lalala world) Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
