On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 12:30 -0500, John Dennis wrote: > Let me give a further example, I'll call it "source collision". There is > nothing which prevents two independent packages from using a source file > with the same name. The basic default rpm macros do not enforce per > package source dirs, by default all packages share a common source dir. > One source rpm is capable of overwriting another source rpm's files if > they share a common name. There are only three ways to prevent this: > > 1) establish a rule which says every source file must be prepended with > a unique string (i.e. the package name). > This is a de facto standard right now. > 2) always use per package source dirs. > This, along with a per user rpm build tree would be a good rpm bug to reopen once we have a new rpm maintainer. -Toshio
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