On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:52:39 -0400 Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:25:13AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > Yes, is the direction I'm thinking. The Layered Image Build > > > Service we have for Docker can automatically rebuild when there > > > are updates to component RPMs, and it'd be nice if we could > > > channel Flatpak through that. Flatpak does have a little bit of > > > awkwardness, though, since it needs to understand nonstandard > > > paths and locations, so it'd probably involve rebuilding the > > > RPMs, or at least some kind of crazy rearranging of binaries. > > Is this what relocatable packages are supposed to solve? > > http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-reloc.html > > Yeah, that might be one way. Not very many packages are made so that > works, though. Maybe we could put more effort into it. Well, it's strongly discouraged currently: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Relocatable_packages it's not at all easy to make work right, so not sure this is the right tool for this use. kevin
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