On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 12:25 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 04:30:15PM -0700, John Poelstra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to meet a (probably overly aggressive) personal goal of > > having zero NEW rawhide bugs (which are not Package Reviews) by the time > > of Fedora 10 GA. Along the way I thought I'd post some of the questions > > and issues I see while triaging these bugs so we can all learn. I > > encourage others to do the same. I've just knocked the list down to > > close to 500! > > > > If you want to join in and help the query for NEW rawhide bugs excluding > > package reviews is here: http://tinyurl.com/6llac8 > > > > Here is what I have so far: > > > > # Is there a general policy around using perl in pre/post ? > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462996 > > Not that I know of, but it is good practice to avoid creating unneccessary > dependancies if there are alternatives, particularly if the choice is between > a large package & small package. Many perl scripts can be done just as well > with a short piece of awk/sed. This makes it much easier for people who want > to build minimal/small Fedora images because they don't unneccessarily > bring in the entire of Perl just for a %post script. Not that I want to single > out perl - the same rationale would apply to unneccessary use of python, if > the use in question could be easily written in awk/sed. Fully agreed, but ... consider both python and perl * are part of the base-packages Fedora is based on. * there are other dependencies adding much more bloat to "minimal installs" That said, though it's advisable to avoid anything outside of POSIX in specs' %pre/%post, I don't any pressing need to push people at avoid perl or python. Ralf -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
