Hello, On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:11:10AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > New clarified language. Packaging Guidelines: > ''' > In general, your package should own all of the directories that it > creates but the situation is more complex than in the case of files > because many packages put files into the same directories. the second half of the sentence really confuses me. I suggest to put period after "creates". > The rule of > thumb is that your package should own all of the directories it creates repeated again? > except those owned by packages which your package depends on. ok > *However, there are times when you should own more than this.* Again, this puzzles me. I would say: "In certain situations, a directory may be owned by two packages. Typically, more than one package has files in a common directory, but none of them requires another of them--in that case, each of them shall own the directory." > If the directory > hierarchy your package is located in may change due to updates of > packages you depend on, then you need to take care to own those pieces > of the hierarchy. This might be correct, but I'm not able to decipher it; perhaps I have not encountered such a situation yet. > [snip examples] > > In any case, there should never be any unowned directories after a > package is uninstalled from the system. Again, I would rephrase. Something like: "In any case, a system may never contain a file owned by an installed package whoch would lay below an unowned directory. (That's because such a directory would remain on the system after the corresponding package has been removed.)" I hope my comments help. Have a nice day, Stepan -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
