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

[Olivier Thauvin]

* 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).

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Olivier Thauvin
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