[Fedora-packaging] Directory ownerships again

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 06/25/2009 02:11 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Tom \"spot\" Callaway wrote:
> 
>> On 06/14/2009 05:50 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>
>>> The "couple of packages disagreeing" cases need to be looked at
>>> case-by-case, but I think for the translations and such a clearer policy
>>> would be good. Having the filesystem package and nothing else own most
>>> of them seems fairly obvious but what should be done when a package
>>> introduces a new translation that filesystem doesn't yet have? Require
>>> filesystem to be updated every time (dunno how often this happens in
>>> reality) or ...?
>>
>> We really should fix this. It should be fairly straightforward to go
>> through and generate a list of these improper multiple dir ownerships
>> (not all multiple dir ownerships are improper) and clean them up.
>>
> 
> 1. script to dump out duplicate dirs in rawhide:
>     http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/dupedirscheck.py
>    It only sorts on package name so duplicate dirs owned by pkgs in
>    multiple arches won't show up.
> 
> 2. output of the above for i686:
>    http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/duplicate_owned_dirs-i686.txt
> 
> 3. output of the above for x86_64:
>    http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/duplicate_owned_dirs-x86_64.txt

Alright. I'm putting this on the top of my todo list, which means I'll
probably get to it sometime in the next week or two. I'm putting my
janitor hat on and just fixing it for people (I will announce that I am
doing it before hand).

~spot