Packaging/Review Guidelines change

[Peter Jones]

On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 10:54 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> On Lun 9 janvier 2006 05:51, Peter Jones wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 19:21 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> >
> >> Well, if Fedora is serious about this rule, should not Fedora's rpm be
> >> patched to emit a warning when operating on a dir owned by something
> >> else ?
> >
> > rpm knows about packages, not repos.
> 
> rpm knows about its db state when performing installations/uninstallations.
> 
> I meant a warning at rpm -U/-i or -e time not at rpmbuild time

Then you're notifying the wrong people that something is wrong.  If
you're going to automagically probe for this and raise some
error/warning/notification, it needs to happen when the package is added
to a repo.  Before then it's incorrect, and after then it doesn't help
to know it's busted.
-- 
  Peter