Packaging/Review Guidelines change

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sun Jan 8 18:52:03 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 19:21 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le dimanche 08 janvier 2006 à 12:50 -0500, Jeff Spaleta a écrit :
> > On 1/8/06, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> wrote:
> > > Argh. should be "repoquery -f `rpm -qpl <yourpackage>.rpm`" of course.
> > > Duh, time to make more coffee...
> > 
> > I believe that this addition to review policy is the first one which
> > requires use of repoquery to explore the existing repospace in order
> > to properly perform the review.  The existance of repoquery and how to
> > use it for this specific review item should probably be added to the
> > review guidelines page.
> 
> 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 ?

I don't think so, since as has been discussed earlier, exceptions to
this rule will be very common (e.g. perl modules).

Paul.




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