On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 23:53 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/118#comment:7 > > Well, IMHO if this is not safe to do in a %pretrans, it is not safe to do at > all. You seem to imply doing things in %pretrans is somehow safer than somewhere else. I don't think so -- as Panu said: "The whole %pretrans thing is a scary hack that's best seen as a last resort to do the minimal required tweak that just cannot be done elsewhere..." > I don't understand why we absolutely HAVE to change directories to symlinks > when we KNOW RPM doesn't support this, and that in directories as essential > as /bin etc. We could wait until you have convinced people, maintainers and users alike, to fix their packages and scripts all in one go over to using the new paths, so we get by without compat symlinks. But I don't think we want to wait for that. Agreed, it'd be a whole lot nicer if RPM could handle symlink <-> non-symlink transitions without crutches like this one, but right now it can't. Nils -- Nils Philippsen "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase Red Hat a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nils@xxxxxxxxxx nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
