Re: [Patch][RFC] fix make rpm

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:59 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>>> -/usr/kvm
>>> +%dir /usr/kvm
>>> +%dir /usr/kvm/bin
>>> +/usr/kvm/bin/qemu-img
>>> +/usr/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
>>>       
> [...]
>   
>> Why is this change necessary?  Doesn't '/usr/kvm' work?  This way,
>> every time qemu adds a file we have to update the rpm spec.
>>     
>
> FYI, I got burned by exactly this problem once. Due to a missing prereq,
> a package build didn't produce all the output it should have. However,
> because I hadn't listed every output explicitly, rpm happily packaged
> everything else, and the package shipped in a distro before anybody
> realized anything was missing.
>
>   

Yeah, perhaps the script should have a "dangerous" label.  Or all rpm 
scripts.

Listing the files doesn't actually solve the problem.  How does a 
packager know if a file was removed intenrionally or accidentally?

-- 
Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.


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