On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 00:36 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > > Jesse Keating píše v Pá 30. 01. 2009 v 13:22 -0800: > >> Why not fail the build if unowned directories are found, just like we do > >> for unowned files? That way you catch it at build time before you try > >> and do something useful with the build. > > How do we determine which directory is unowned and which is provided by > > a dependency? If we don't, every package would have to own /usr. > > It'd be possible to turn the topmost unowned directory into a file (well, > directory) dependency. Either at build time, which would cause a big pile > of new file dependencies in the metadata, or rpm could generate them at > runtime. The problem with runtime generated dependencies is just that yum > & the like wouldn't be able to resolve them without fairly big changes. It'd be painful to have everything have a "Requires: /usr" (or whatever) as it would make filelists mandatory for every update ... but it would just work, with yum. -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
