[Mageia-dev] Over-zealous rpmlint policy (rejecting rt)

Thu Jan 12 12:39:43 CET 2012

On Thursday, 12 January 2012 11:55:07 Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Buchan Milne at 12/01/12 09:12 did gyre and gimble:
+> > I don't see why we shouldn't ship dirs in /usr/local ...
+> 
+> I don't really see the point in shipping the dirs personally.
+> 
+> Any separate extension that is packaged should not go into /usr/local
+> anyway,
+
+No one ever said they would, you snipped the part of my mail saying that 
+'locally installed' customisations, IOW, ones not managed by the package 
+manager etc., go there.
+
+> so these folders are purely for users doing this manually.
+
+Yes. And that's why we provide /usr/local/share/applications?
+
+/me wonders if 'filesystem' would make it through the BS.
+
+> I would expect that the "make install" stage of any extension
+> installation would automatically create those folders anyway, so I
+> really don't see the benefit of adding these empty folders into a
+> package.
+
+So, why would 'make isntall' of rt, which has been configured to itself live 
+in a system location, explicitly create these directories?
+
+> The gain in doing so seems minimal to the point of useless.
+
+I can remove the dirs in the package, but also, what is the benefit? On a 
+system dedicated to running a request tracking system, should we explicitly 
+make it more difficult to run said system that it would be if installed from 
+source?
+
+> Of course if extensions do not have installer scripts then the user will
+> have to create those folders themselves, but if they are following a
+> manual recipe anyway, what's an extra mkdir during that process going to
+> cost them? Very little IMO.
+> 
+> Disclaimer: I have no experience of rt itself, so I could be missing
+> something contextual here.
+
+Well, I haven't myself used extensions that live here, because I have to be 
+careful not to deliver something one of our vendors is contracted to deliver. 
+I'll test one on my laptop ...
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+