Mattias Ellert wrote, at 03/23/2009 11:31 PM +9:00:
Hi! It was suggested to me to bring this issue to this list. The packaging guidelines says that a package should not own a directory that is owned by a package on which it depends. The packaging guidelines also says that packages should own all directories needed in order not to leave orphaned directories after a package de-installation. The way rpm/yum currently works these guidelines are contradicting and you must choose which one to implement in your packaging. My question is - is this a bug in yum/rpm, or a flaw in the packaging guidelines?
I guess this is a bug in rpm. As far as I am correct current Fedora packaging guidelines assume this is properly handled by rpm. Actually I filed bug 490975 and am waiting for comments from rpm maintainers. Regards, Mamoru -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
