Unowned directories

Gianluca Sforna giallu at gmail.com
Sat Sep 9 09:41:52 UTC 2006


On 9/9/06, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
> >>>>> "GS" == Gianluca Sforna <giallu at gmail.com> writes:
>
> GS> So, assuming rpmlint is not checking directory ownerships, is this
> GS> feaute _that_ hard to implement?
>
> It's certainly nontrivial.  You not only have to check that some
> package owns each of the directories which would be created by package
> installation which are not actually owned by the package in question,
> but you also have to make sure that the owner of the file is in the
> dependency footprint of the package.
>

So, what about doing that in the mock chroot after the build?

There are ongoing discussion (on fedora-buildsys-list) about adding an
(optional) rpmlint step to mock: that seems to be the proper place for
checks like this.




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