Directories not owned by package

[Enrico Scholz]

Nicolas.Mailhot at laPoste.net (Nicolas Mailhot) writes:

>> For multi-distribution packages, or 3rd party repositories it may be
>> impossible to find a common packagename so that correct installation
>> order can not be guaranted.
>> 
>> With directory ownership this is not a problem as shown above.
>
> It wouldn't be a problem if directory ownership was mandatory.  The
> sad fact is - the vast majority of directories on a given FS are not
> owned by anyone.

Unfortunately this is true and the bugreports are ignored for years :(

Situation of FC1 is shown in

  http://user.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/rpmDirectoryCheck/results/yarrow.html.gz


There has not been very much changed (at least in a positive manner) in
relation to RH7.3.

Therefore, strict policies (like the fedora.us ones) are required so
that such broken packages can be rejected.




Enrico