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On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:51:49 -0400
Jonathan Kamens <jik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4/25/2012 12:47 PM, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > 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
> No. This is not correct packaging.
>
> 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.
actually a * would have been preferable what they would have used is
%{_bindir} they should have done %{_bindir}/* so they own whats in
there but not the directory itself if they jsut used something like /*
they would also own /usr but its very buggy packaging.
Dennis
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