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

[Ville Skyttä]

On Thursday 06 August 2009, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> For %_netsharedpath, it could be any portion of the package that
> could change to be unwritable out from under the package. If it's
> /usr/lib, should it be OK if ldconfig fails? If it's /etc/init.d,
> is it OK if chkconfig fails?

All I'm saying is packagers should just not assume that scriptlets will always 
succeed and that'll provide the basic catch-all level of support for scenarios 
such as the above (which I think is enough), and many others such as things 
discussed in this thread.  We already have that documented, see the scriptlet 
exit status discussion at 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Syntax

But as said, I'm not personally interested in %_netsharedpath except to some 
theoretical extent, so... meh.

Aside, I do think it should be evaluated whether rpm's current default 
behavior regarding scriptlet exit statuses is really what we want, or if it 
should be flipped so that the effects on the transaction non-zero exit 
statuses currently have (which I believe is rarely if ever desirable) would 
need to be explicitly invoked in scriptlets some way.