Hi,
Who is supposed to own /usr/share/locale/<lang>?
rpm -qf /usr/share/locale/* on FC4, reveals ownership on these dirs being handled quite inconsistently.
Many are unowned, several are owned by individual packages (gettext, hal, gawk ..., seems like packaging bugs to me), ...
Ralf
Ralf Corsepius wrote :
Who is supposed to own /usr/share/locale/<lang>?
rpm -qf /usr/share/locale/* on FC4, reveals ownership on these dirs being handled quite inconsistently.
Many are unowned, several are owned by individual packages (gettext, hal, gawk ..., seems like packaging bugs to me), ...
For gawk it's indeed a bug, and I already filed a report (unanswered yet) : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167181
Matthias
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 00:35 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Ralf Corsepius (rc040203@freenet.de) said:
Who is supposed to own /usr/share/locale/<lang>?
There's a bug open on this. The problem is, of course, it's impossible to programatically own the union of all possible languages.
OK. So what is the current "official" packaging policy? * Let each package own the /usr/share/locale/<lang> dirs it uses? * Let /usr/share/locale/<lang> dirs be unowned? The former would be a clear approach, while the latter seems sloppy to me, nevertheless seems to be what has been favored so far.
Ralf
Ralf Corsepius (rc040203@freenet.de) said:
Who is supposed to own /usr/share/locale/<lang>?
There's a bug open on this. The problem is, of course, it's impossible to programatically own the union of all possible languages.
OK. So what is the current "official" packaging policy?
- Let each package own the /usr/share/locale/<lang> dirs it uses?
- Let /usr/share/locale/<lang> dirs be unowned?
The former would be a clear approach, while the latter seems sloppy to me, nevertheless seems to be what has been favored so far.
I don't think there *is* a policy. The former seems more practical, of course, you'll have to make sure everything has the same perms, etc.
Bill
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