[Mageia-dev] My feeeling about the rpmlib(X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir) dependency

Thu Jul 26 11:05:30 CEST 2012

* Balcaen John (mikala at mageia.org) wrote:
+> Le jeudi 26 juillet 2012 09:05:08 Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
+> > Hi,
+> Hello,
+> 
+> > I do think the way we enforce the need of migrate to /usr fs is just an
+> > abuse of rpm.
+> > 
+> > By using the a rpmlib() dependency we create in fact this dependency
+> > tree:
+> > filesystem => rpm with X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir patch => check fs
+> > whereas we want:
+> > filesystem => check fs
+> > 
+> > THere another to perform the check w/o needing patch in rpm (so w/o
+> > needing a specific rpm first): using pre script.
+> Well if it's stay like this we'll have to provide an updated rpm on mga2 & 
+> ensure it's installed because i was forced here to install manually rpm& his 
+> dependency because of this loop even if the filesystem was already migrated 
+> when upgrading from a fresh installed mga2 to cauldron.
+
+An update is already provided (currently in update_testing) but indeed
+my proposal does not need an update of rpm (it's a standard feature for
+years now).
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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