On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 19:25, Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 1:08 PM clime <clime(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 17:42, Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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> > >> Or switch to depend on `%{_bindir}/git`?
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> > > If we do it like this, we will never be able drop repo download times
> > > for Fedora users.
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> > Files in %{_bindir} already end up in the primary metadata, don't they?
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> Ok, I didn't know that. Do you happen to know if there is
> documentation of what ends up in primary metadata and what not?
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There is not, but it's generally supposed to be */bin and */lib.
I think it might be a good idea to state this in packaging guidelines...
i.e. "Packages should either specify their requirements explicitly by
package names or optionally by a filesystem path for files under
/usr/bin and /usr/lib paths. Requirements on files at other paths are
technically also possible but they might trigger the need for download
of additional repodata files by dnf when such a package is being
installed, therefore they are not recommended."
... or something like that. I will need to check the exact paths etc.
but after some more polish....could i open a pull request for this
somewhere? I think it doesn't matter that lazy loading is not
implemented yet.
Thank you
clime
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