Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: autofs - A tool for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227631 ------- Additional Comments From rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx 2007-02-09 00:53 EST ------- 1. I generally contest the assertion that replacing file deps with package deps is "good". They are not equivalent. It ignores the fact that applications can be moved between packages at any time, and that tools can change their location (even within a package) at any time. 2. rpm scriptlets introduce a direct dependency of a package on a file and will fail or produce invalid results when these files move/are removed/replaced. 3. rpm scriptlets are special wrt. execution order upon package removal/upgrade/installation (for details c.f. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets) This introduces special constraints on package dependencies, which become utterly complicated when tools change their location rsp. move between packages. Admitted, /sbin/chkconfig, /sbin/service and /bin/bash are unlikely to be moved/removed in near future, but for the sake of clarity of specs and to avoid problems related to 1-3. above, I am enforcing a rule of "To be safe, each tool being explicitly and unconditionally invoked in scriptlets, must be explicitly listed as file dep in Requires(xxx)" I am not sure if there is a corresponding rule in the guideline, but I think so. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review