On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 19:54 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > 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. Sorry, it is not. What you say largely is a random side-effect of the fact that most tarball's names do not to conflict and to user practice (rpmbuild --rebuild or rpm -U *.src.rpm), but it does not apply to SOURCE<N> in general. We have many scripts, patches and other files, which are likely to conflict - I have been bitten by perl*req/prov filters several times. Ralf -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
