[Fedora-packaging] mass-filed --excludedocs bugs

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Aug 6 14:13:25 UTC 2009


On 08/06/2009 10:09 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> It would seem an enterprising contributor has taken it upon themselves
> to mass-file bugs wrt installing packages using --excludedocs. Problem
> being that many of these bugs are about scriptlet output, like, in
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515925
>
> install-info: No such file or directory for /usr/share/info/pinentry.info
>
> which follows our current guidlines,
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Texinfo
>
> and is not fatal to the transaction.
>
> Should the guideline be changed to suppress the erroneous output, or
> checks added (as suggested in the aforementioned bug), like
> [ -f %{_infodir}/pinentry.info ] && ...

Well, if there is output that we wouldn't want suppressed, we could do 
the file check, but I'm wondering how much of a slow down it would be to 
check for that file several hundred times in a large transaction.

~spot




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