On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 06:37:04PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 17:13 -0600, Michael E Brown wrote: > > > So, are we going to mandate in the packaging guidelines that packages > > *not* use environment variables > > Thinking about this a bit more the krb thing is really ugly but probably > not something that needs to be prohibited. Having mock use a login > shell isn't the end of the world. > > The way to think about this is that's it's just as broken as library > software which ships a binary named foo-config for libfoo2 and libfoo3; > there is a conflict between /usr/bin/foo-config and so you can't have > them both installed at the same time. > > > and that all packages should use > > pkg-config? > > pkg-config is a good way to sanely manage development libraries, but > it's not the one true way (i.e. we don't need to mandate it) - if some > software wants to do something else that's fine, as long as they do it > correctly =) A link to that page though in the guidelines would be a > good idea so we can help upstreams understand how to be a good Linux > citizen. Ok. So it seems that we have general consensus that it wouldnt be the end of the world for mock to use a login shell. I have checked in a patch to upstream mock git repository. Can some of the affected parties please check it out and see if it fixes your issue? We can release a fixed version soon if this works out. -- Michael -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
