On 4/25/2012 12:47 PM, Kamil Paral wrote:
No. This is not correct packaging.Isn't it common to also include the directories you want to place files into? $ rpm -ql google-chrome-stable | grep /bin /usr/bin /usr/bin/google-chrome It is reasonable for an RPM to require the presence of the system directories it uses as prerequisites before it can be installed, so that if the filesystem layout changes in a way that the RPM doesn't expect, it will refuse to install (which is correct behavior). It is not reasonable for an RPM to include shared directories that it does not own. Files and directories should only be owned by a single RPM. On my system, there are only four RPMs (out of 3616) that provide /usr/bin: VirtualBox, filesystem, google-earth-stable, and google-chrome-stable. It is telling that three of these four RPMs are third-party RPMs. Their maintainers are shipping buggy RPMs and they should fix them. This is generally a sign that they were lazy when writing their spec files... Instead of constructing the %files section of the spec file carefully to include only the files they actually own, they just put "*" in the spec file to include the entire contents of the install directory. Yuck. jik |
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