[th] rpm.spec - packaging problem

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:06:23PM +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> Last year rpm switched the /etc/rpm/sysinfo syntax. Now it expects
> /etc/rpm/sysinfo to be a directory with following files inside:
> 
>     "Providename",
>     "Requirename",
>     "Conflictname",
>     "Obsoletename",
>     "Dirnames",
>     "Filelinktos"
> 
> (Taken from rpm/lib/rpmds.c)
> 
> In PLD we still provide it as a file which limits its use (the
> fallback treats everything in the file as Providename).
> 
> After doing:
> 
> mv /etc/rpm/sysinfo{,.old}
> mkdir /etc/rpm/sysinfo
> mv /etc/rpm/sysinfo{.old,/Filelinktos}
> 
> We can do useful stuff like:
> 
> echo "foo >= 0.2" >> /etc/rpm/sysinfo/Requirename
> 
> to pin a certain package a'la Gentoo's world package. Both sysadmins
> and poldek could benefit from this feature (poldek would need a helper
> binary called via sudo to alter the contents but it uses sudo for rpm
> anyway).
> 
> Therefore I propose fixing the packaging to adapt the new upstream format.

Uhm, could it be /etc/rpm/sysinfo.d/* ?
Switching a name between being file and directory is PITA with rpm.


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