Summary of the 2007-05-29 Packaging Committee meeting
Jason L Tibbitts III
tibbs at math.uh.edu
Wed May 30 16:58:22 UTC 2007
Meeting minutes and full logs of the packaging committee meeting which
occurred on 2007-05-29 are online:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes20070529
Executive summary:
The following drafts are now official guidelines, having been accepted
by FESCO last week:
* Tweaks to static library packaging guidelines:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/StaticLibraryChanges
This should be written into the guidelines soon if it hasn't
already been done by the time you read this.
No issues pending FESCO ratification this week.
Misc business:
* Guidelines for adding Users and Groups
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/UsersAndGroups
* Serious fundamental issues exist in rpm that prevent any reliable
handling of users and groups inside rpm scriptlets. For instance,
%pre cannot be allowed to fail, because it seems that it is not
possible to abort an RPM transaction.
* Clever ideas working around the tough problems would be warmly
welcomed.
* Fix incorrect information in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets
* http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2007-May/msg00116.html
* scop will draft up various changes.
* Including in binary packages test suite code that upstream does not
install.
* There are multiple issues: including things as %doc and actually
packaging test binaries in /usr/bin.
* There is little committee consensus on this; some members don't
care what gets packaged as %doc, some don't want any test suite
code packaged at all.
* Community opinions are solicited here.
* If someone feels strongly enough about the issue, please write up
a draft.
- J<
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