packaging June 2012

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Need advice on using a new directory in the root hierarchy
by Michel Alexandre Salim 03 Jun '12

03 Jun '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I've just submitted a review request[1] for Nix[2], a purely functional package manager. Nix uses the /nix directory by default for essential operations -- its package store, for instance, is located at /nix/store by default, and it's local state in /nix/var. These can be overridden at compile time, however, doing so makes it impossible to use pre-built binaries[3] provided in Nix channels (repositories). As such, it seems that this is a justifiable case for creating a new directory under root -- cf. the introduction of /run, as documented in Fedora 15's release notes[4]: This change is compliant with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, which allows distributions to create new directories in the root hierarchy as long as there is careful consideration of the consequences. I posit that compatibility with a vast amount of pre-built binaries, and the reduced usefulness of the tool without this compatibility (anyone who has used MacPorts, with its lack of pre-built binaries, would sympathize). Should I create an FPC ticket for this? [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827289 [2]: http://nixos.org/nix/ [3]: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2657151/download/1/manual/#id523917 [4]: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Release_Notes/sect-Relea… Thanks in advance, - -- Michel Alexandre Salim Fedora Project Contributor: http://fedoraproject.org/ Email: salimma(a)fedoraproject.org | GPG key ID: A36A937A Jabber: hircus(a)jabber.ccc.de | IRC: hircus(a)irc.freenode.net () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPyZIKAAoJEEr1VKujapN6Am8H/3YjBVTOC50uTwX+sUgfHcaq nofCNitD29Dz8/y1Zt+1/Y9aWPTl64Mx9Cwgug8pcv5zJCiXU6nMlWQ+4OsHdVb4 XSyOHR1gwtnh+tfV46y3wG4NYwjm0x2+7Ti+55mrmEpOT5FSGHVb3AHamBb91s9s 2JNb2LxSPDAZc9l9G4Qe+wRwUvoGKFtjOnTi91bC6OzYq7qvAbCwQHPGKSjZt3EH jAU0xAHIp/OeHudJLohDAdU8Ma8r9XQVKIGOrtw80DvpPtAIHPvPdjNebLOSMpwg XspMl68Fgy3CY/fcSAdtRBZKlN+8UGEoCYsgFz1LZBs5lNytUyF/KfliPKllA+Y= =oI1K -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Incorrect suggestion in sysvinit packaging guide?
by Michel Alexandre Salim 02 Jun '12

02 Jun '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The Packaging:SysVInitScript page on the wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SysVInitScript#Initscripts_in_addit… has the following uninstall trigger example: %triggerpostun -n packagename-sysvinit -- packagename < 1.0-2 /sbin/chkconfig --add httpd >/dev/null 2>&1 || : That should probably be "%{_sbindir}/chkconfig --del packagename > /dev/null 2>&1 || :" ? i.e. deleting, instead of adding, and not using httpd as the default example as that might be confusing (and not hard-coding /sbin given that it's an additional symlink to dereference in F-17+) Not sure what the procedure is for updating packaging pages so I'm not making the change myself, just in case. Thanks, - -- Michel Alexandre Salim Fedora Project Contributor: http://fedoraproject.org/ Email: salimma(a)fedoraproject.org | GPG key ID: A36A937A Jabber: hircus(a)jabber.ccc.de | IRC: hircus(a)irc.freenode.net () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPybkSAAoJEEr1VKujapN6bUkH/3wI0G1xLp/leuZnJbuhR8QF ajVuvrQjIpgRmJQnNmVCAw7Z0MAVYN/TzMUbqKe5thQnqefAJBECpJ3nAAjkoNah upZqhG+JQooijdMH4GE7Hk32wu8DjdM0QlhZ/oqT6XgYnrO+p899YbY2eMJLNoJK XVw/EsN6BPAoO3H1PELyFwHq7LkV1htjY2slYrq0Z1ndeEzEUDSaAz1uZt8YkTEt TX+BL2rgjrRr1QxIeD3FlirAzYULLN6ikD7+3lRiYqZ+JwQXtfcRznOuVkD8VRfi mepymt1z9Ue2kepl8l42dklzkutcY3+RFOcoRIlyQrDn0WA6+5KdHZYHWjxJn8c= =biT4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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root of a repository
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

Hi all, I have a repository $ tree -d -L 2 . └── 16 ├── i386 └── x86_64 i386 & x86_64 both contain their set of rpm. If I want to create a repo (run "yum createrepo"), would you advice me to create it at "16" level or at "i386 & x86_64" level? -- RMA.

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