On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Have the %post automatically strip the tripwire entries out of
> the specspo files. Not nice, but then it's not nice to have them
> in there in the first place if the package isn't in the
> distribution.
>
> IMHO...
What is this? First episode of "Battle of the Packages"? Actually, at
fedora.us, a package which modifies the files included within another
package in %post would be unacceptable for me and a "blocker "criterion
[*]. Surely the Fedora Project will find the proper solution for this
very minor "tripwire vs. specspo" issue. And that is either to remove the
tripwire entries from the specspo package or to fix them together with the
%description in the tripwire package. If the tripwire package doesn't
have any worse issues, great!
I don't purport that it is a /good/ solution, but it is an
alternative nonetheless. Another alternative, is to have the
tripwire package "Require: bugzuki" (bugzuki is a commandline
based bugzilla frontend client which uses XMLRPC). Then you
could have the tripwire package installation automatically detect
if specspo contains the bad tripwire entries and have it
automatically file a bug report via XMLRPC into bugzilla.
;o)
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Mike A. Harris
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OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat