Problems with core review

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 05:26 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 19:54 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > 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.
> Sorry, it is not. 
> 
> What you say largely is a random side-effect of the fact that most
> tarball's names do not to conflict and to user practice (rpmbuild
> --rebuild or rpm -U *.src.rpm), but it does not apply to SOURCE<N> in
> general.
> 
Oops. You're quite right.  I was thinking of patches where 80%+ are
namespaced and not %{Source}.

-Toshio
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