Proposal (and yes, I'm willing to do stuff!): Must Use More Macros

Casey Dahlin cdahlin at redhat.com
Sat Jun 6 00:04:46 UTC 2009


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Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
> Casey Dahlin wrote:
>> Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
>>>> I don't know how hard it would be to fix rpm to allow for that though.
>>> Just off the top of my head, this doesn't feel like something rpm should
>>> be in charge of. To me it seems more likely that we need something in a
>>> base/core rpm that installs an inotify script for system dirs that does
>>> what it should when something is dropped into it...?
>>>
>>
>> Ugh, no. We don't need another running service to do this. Just have
>> rpm do it as part of its post install and you don't need to involve
>> inotify; it knows a file showed up because it put it there a few
>> milliseconds ago.
> Inotify isn't a service/daemon, and its running already afaik??
> 
> 
> 

Its a kernel API. You need a service running to operate it.

- --CJD
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