Re: Too many unowned directories

[seth vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org>]

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 13:21 -0500, James Antill wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 00:36 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> > 
> > > Jesse Keating píše v Pá 30. 01. 2009 v 13:22 -0800:
> > >> Why not fail the build if unowned directories are found, just like we do
> > >> for unowned files?  That way you catch it at build time before you try
> > >> and do something useful with the build.
> > > How do we determine which directory is unowned and which is provided by
> > > a dependency?  If we don't, every package would have to own /usr.
> > 
> > It'd be possible to turn the topmost unowned directory into a file (well, 
> > directory) dependency. Either at build time, which would cause a big pile 
> > of new file dependencies in the metadata, or rpm could generate them at 
> > runtime. The problem with runtime generated dependencies is just that yum 
> > & the like wouldn't be able to resolve them without fairly big changes.
> 
>  It'd be painful to have everything have a "Requires: /usr" (or
> whatever) as it would make filelists mandatory for every update ... but
> it would just work, with yum.

Not that I'd suggest this but we _could_ add dirs to the primary
filelist....
-sv