[Mageia-dev] Ownership of /usr/share/man/XX, %find_lang --with-man

Sat Jul 16 20:00:57 CEST 2011

Michael Scherer a écrit :
+>
+> Le samedi 09 juillet 2011 à 14:46 +0200, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+>> I used the --with-man option of the %find_lang RPM macro, but noticed that it
+>> adds all /usr/share/man/XX and /usr/share/man/XX/manX directories to the
+>> package, which, it seems, is bad.
+>>
+>> Spturtle noticed that for example /usr/share/man/sr belongs to no other
+>> package and prefers that it belongs to too much packages than to no package at
+>> all.
+>>
+>> I looked at what fedora does, and it looks like they added all those
+>> translated manpages dirs to the filesystem package ( see
+>> http://sophie.zarb.org/explorer/usr/share/man/sr and select fedora )
+>> It would solve the problem at hand and we could start cleaning wrong
+>> ownerships, such as those :
+>> http://sophie.zarb.org/explorer/usr/share/man/fr (select mageia)
+>
+> Filesystem sound the logical place to put everything.
+> The real problem is to find the canonical list of supported languages.
+
+It seems to me that we should treat all languages the same.  But not create 
+directories/assign ownership for languages not on the user's system.
+
+So that would mean assigning ownership (to filesystem) when an arbitrary new 
+language is added, or systematically denying ownership for all such directories.
+(If readily done, assigning to filesystem does sound better.)
+
+Either way I think the build system could play a role in this.
+And maybe rpmlint.
+
+Since I don't know how ownership is stored, nor how ownership is now assigned 
+for such directories, I don't know how we would implement this.
+But it might be an idea, once we decide what to do (depending on what is 
+workable), that we have a utility that will clean the users' package database, 
+to conform to our new rules.
+
+Another 2 cents.
+-- 
+André
+