[Bug 227631] Review Request: autofs - A tool for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems

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Summary: Review Request: autofs - A tool for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227631





------- Additional Comments From rc040203 at freenet.de  2007-02-09 00:53 EST -------
1. I generally contest the assertion that replacing file deps with package deps
is "good". 

They are not equivalent. It ignores the fact that applications can be moved
between packages at any time, and that tools can change their location (even
within a package) at any time.

2. rpm scriptlets introduce a direct dependency of a package on a file and will
fail or produce invalid results when these files move/are removed/replaced.

3. rpm scriptlets are special wrt. execution order upon package
removal/upgrade/installation (for details c.f.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets)

This introduces special constraints on package dependencies, which become
utterly complicated when tools change their location rsp. move between packages.


Admitted, /sbin/chkconfig, /sbin/service and /bin/bash are unlikely to be
moved/removed in near future, but for the sake of clarity of specs and to avoid
problems related to 1-3. above, I am enforcing a rule of
"To be safe, each tool being explicitly and unconditionally invoked in
scriptlets, must be explicitly listed as file dep in Requires(xxx)"

I am not sure if there is a corresponding rule in the guideline, but I think so.




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