On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Ville Skyttà wrote: > On Thursday 09 December 2010, Tom Callaway wrote: > >> The guidelines have been updated to indicate that %doc files must not >> have executable permissions. > > Why? ÂIf they (example scripts etc) don't add any dependencies that aren't > already in the package's dependency chain, what is the problem solved by this > guideline, and how do you propose handling these files instead? > Wouldn't it be better if this issue is solved on the rpmbuild side instead of putting it as extra work on packagers? rpmbuild can call either chmod -x on the %doc files at the end; or if the problem is just the dependencies added by executable %doc files, then rpmbuild can be taught to not scan the %doc files for generating dependencies. If no, why not? Orcan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
