Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: some more patches from Bjoern Voigt

[Bjoern V. <bj...@cs...>]

Ethan Blanton <ebl...@cs... wrote:

> > -%if %{_vendor} !=3D MandrakeSoft
> > +%if "%{_vendor}" !=3D "MandrakeSoft"
>
> I suppose this is OK ... but will anyone using RPM 3.x realistically
> be able to build gaim these days?

Hhm, SuSE Linux 8.2 (and probably other United Linux based distros) use
RPM 3.x. Also FreeBSD has only RPM 3.x in it's ports collection (not
much people build rpm's on FreeBSD:-) In practice I don't see much
differences between RPM 3.x and RPM 4.x.

> I didn't include the directories ... I've never understood why one
> needed to do so for non-empty directories.  If this is the correct
> thing to do, by all means let us do it.

For instance, if you write

/usr/share/sounds/gaim/*

in spec file and delete the rpm package, then nobody deletes the
directory /usr/share/sounds/. As far I know, directories are deleted,
if you write something like

/usr/share/*

But this isn't always possible. I think, it's the best way to mark
directories, if this application is the only one, which uses a single
directory:

%dir /usr/share/sounds/gaim
/usr/share/sounds/gaim/*

RPM doesn't delete none-empty directories, so writing

%dir /usr

is a very bad idea, because of the warnings about none-empty
directories, but it doesn't kill the system.

> Libraries _on Linux_ do not require 755.  On some systems they do, and
> RPM is used on systems other than Linux.  (not to mention
> capabilities-based systems in Linux, which might require this!) This
> change should not be made.

Ok, I looked at /lib and /usr/lib. It's true, that the shared
libraries are executable, also on Linux. (Did you ever executed
/lib/libc.so.6? It works!)

But one the other hand, I don't find

%attr(755, root, root).../*.so*

in other spec files. The reason may be, that libtool (or gcc) already
set the execution bit correctly. Then rpm preserves this bit
automatically without %attr. Also *.la files don't need the x-bit,
because only libtool uses it.

Bj=F6rn

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