Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (80 mails)

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le mercredi 25 août 2010 à 13:34 +0200, Adrian Schröter a écrit :
> On Wednesday 25 August 2010 13:31:16 Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > Le mercredi 25 août 2010 à 13:22 +0200, Ludwig Nussel a écrit :
> > > Vincent Untz wrote:
> > > > I'm considering patching rpmlint to add errors when those macros are not
> > > > used. See the attached patch, which I haven't tested yet.
> > > >
> > > > I'm a bit worried that adding tons of checks like this will be expensive
> > > > in the long term. On the other hand, missing those calls is really bad
> > > > since it will result in non-working packages or even crashing
> > > > applications.
> > >
> > > There are more expensive tests than those anyways so don't worry.
> > > The rpmlint package already carries way too much patches though. If
> > > your tests are SUSE specific anyways it would probably make sense to
> > > have it in a separate file here:
> > > http://gitorious.org/opensuse/rpmlint-checks
> > >
> > > If the macros are suse specific I wonder how other distros solve
> > > the problem?
> >
> > With my "previous" Mandriva hat :
> >
> > macros were used, similar to Vincent proposal, until file triggers were
> > added to Mandriva RPM (I think there is work to add them to upstream RPM
> > too), which was doing the work in the background ;)
>
> We try to avoid trigger scripts, because it can lead to the situation that 
> package X 
> is not installable or de-instable, because package Y has a broken script. 

file triggers (http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Rpm_filetriggers )  are
different than traditional triggers (which should be avoided as much as
possible), IIRC they don't influence packages installation status.

-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Novell

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