wtogami redhat com (Warren Togami) writes: >>> Should we make it a packaging policy that packages must own all >>> directories and files that it installs in order to avoid umask 077 >>> problems like this where the installed software is effectively >>> broken? >> +1, although I thought that already is a policy at least in Extras. >> But not _all_ directories it installs, only those that are not owned >> by its prerequisite packages. Exactly; and to nitpick: simple 'Requires:' do not suffice, but 'Requires(pre):' (and Requires(postun): ones) are needed. > Hmm you are right, but that makes it more difficult to make an automated > test. An automated test would have to ignore lot of exceptions; e.g. there was never found a solution for all the language dirs in /usr/share/man or in /usr/share/locale. > I guess both tests will require a chroot and installing all deps. Not really; just an rpmdb with all available packages. rpmDirectoryCheck can do such a check but does not work well with ambiguous deps and requires manual adjustments for them. Enrico
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