rpms/fence-agents/F-11 fence-agents.spec,1.13,1.14

Fabio M. Di Nitto fdinitto at redhat.com
Tue Oct 27 11:54:25 UTC 2009


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:37:28 +0100, Fabio wrote:
> 
>>>> I also considered a specific file Requires: /usr/bin/virsh, but policy
>>>> suggests to avoid that for different reasons.
>>> Really? What policy is that? Programs in bin paths are covered by the
>>> primary metadata. Such a dependency would be more accurate.
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#File_Dependencies
>>
>> I understand that files in bin paths are already covered by primary
>> data, but the way it is formulated there, it sounds (to me) that there
>> is still extra processing involved from the different depsolver.
> 
> You've misread that section. Most of it comments on file dependencies
> _outside_ (!) /etc and bin paths. Those are the ones you ought to avoid,
> as the depsolvers would need to download and parse additional metadata
> archives.

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

Update spec files are on the way.

Fabio




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