Problems with core review

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 12:30 -0500, John Dennis wrote:
> Let me give a further example, I'll call it "source collision". There is
> nothing which prevents two independent packages from using a source file
> with the same name. The basic default rpm macros do not enforce per
> package source dirs, by default all packages share a common source dir.
> One source rpm is capable of overwriting another source rpm's files if
> they share a common name. There are only three ways to prevent this:
> 
> 1) establish a rule which says every source file must be prepended with
> a unique string (i.e. the package name).
> 
This is a de facto standard right now.

> 2) always use per package source dirs.
> 
This, along with a per user rpm build tree would be a good rpm bug to
reopen once we have a new rpm maintainer.

-Toshio
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