Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522895 --- Comment #3 from Matthew Harmsen <mharmsen@xxxxxxxxxx> 2009-11-04 19:28:11 EDT --- Comment From John Dennis (jdennis@xxxxxxxxxx) 2009-11-02 15:16:44 EDT: The package pki-native-tools is doing a number of bogus things. It installs these executable scripts: /usr/bin/pkiarch /usr/bin/pkidist /usr/bin/pkiflavor /usr/bin/pkiname whose job is to echo (hardcoded) configuration information. This is not how we store and query configuration information in Fedora (and RHEL). This information should be located in files under /etc. pkiarch returns 'i386', pkidist returns 'fc11' on my machine, Each of the above executable needs to be removed and replaced with mechanisms appropriate to our distributions (e.g. store the information in a configuration file, marked as %config, and read the information out of that file) and/or use the existing mechanisms to determine the arch, release, etc. If the packages need executables like pkiarch and pkidist then it's an indication of bad packaging practices elsewhere which also will need to be corrected. The package pki-native-tools also installs a symbolic link /usr/bin/pkiperl which points to /usr/bin/perl Then all the perl scripts in all the pki packages have this in their shebang line: #!/usr/bin/pkiperl This also is bad packaging practice. If you need a specific version of perl then that needs to be specified in the spec file so that rpm can resolve those dependencies. Scripts then invoke /usr/bin/perl. Setting up links in /usr/bin to specific versions of interpreters is likely to create all sorts of problems in RPM managed systems. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review