On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 09:31 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 15:58 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 14:31 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > * To make file deps on tools being used in %pre|post
scripts mandatory.
>
> +1 when the tools are really required. An example when they are not is
> eg. the GTK+ icon cache entry at
>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ScriptletSnippets
>
What is the reason to use file dependencies? Clarity when comparing
Requires to scriptlets? To protect against programs moving to a
different package?
My motivation is to protect package maintainers and installers
against
* tools moving to different packages.
* tools moving to different places.
Actually, I would like to see a policy of this kind implemented:
* All tools being used in rpm-scriptlets must be using an absolute path.
* Each tool being used in rpm-scriptlets must be accompanied by a
corresponding Requires(post|pre|preun|postun|..).
IMO, this would help avoiding such changes breaking upgrade/update paths
and would help avoid users to break their systems.
Ralf