SPECS: rpm.spec - R: rc-scripts (/etc/sysconfig) - rel 1.4

Jakub Bogusz qboosh at pld-linux.org
Wed May 24 12:34:18 CEST 2006


On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:29:02PM +0200, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> Elan =?utf-8?q?Ruusam=C3=A4e?= wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 May 2006 11:39, Paweł Gołaszewski wrote:
> > > On Wed, 24 May 2006, Bartosz Taudul wrote:
> > > > > that's a bad dep. /etc/sysconfig is processed anyway as root from
> > > > > %post scripts as well we don't require pkgconfig in packages providing
> > > > > .pc files.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, it's a bad dependency, but without it there are problems with
> > > > upgrading rpm on builders:
> > > >
> > > > error: Failed dependencies:
> > > > /etc/sysconfig is needed by rpm-base-4.4.6-1.2.i686
> > >
> > > Some system-dirs package should be made for that purpose.
> > we have it. it's called FHS (or setup)
> 
> FHS is wrong name for a package containing dirs not described in the FHS
> standard.

It contains such dirs since long time.
Two solutions to stop abusing FHS:
- rename FHS to filesystem
- split FHS into FHS and filesystem with R: FHS


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