SPECS: rpm.spec - 5.1.6 - updated TODO (will glob patch finally go away?)

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Tuesday 28 of October 2008, Jan Rekorajski wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 of October 2008, baggins wrote:
> > > Author: baggins                      Date: Tue Oct 28 22:11:56 2008 GMT
> > > Module: SPECS                         Tag: HEAD
> > > ---- Log message:
> > > - 5.1.6
> > >
> > >
> > > - updated TODO (will glob patch finally go away?)
> >
> > Only if current upstream rpm is smart enough to always use own glob()
> > implementation (which differently handles symlinks pointing to nowhere
> > than current glibc implementation).
>
> rpm's glob() has been moved from misc to rpmio, and I don't know how to
> test if it works properly :(

Test was simple:

%install
ln -s /not-existing-crap $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/test

%files
/test

if it fails then the problem is still there.

> BTW Why aren't we using rpm 5.1.x in Th?

Because of these reported and unfixed bugs (which are serious regresions for 
us comparing to 4.4.9).

> Janek

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
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