On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 15:58 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 14:31 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> I think, we should implement a policy to make
>
> * Requires(pre|post)
> mandatory instead of PreReq
-1 for that wording, they are not the same thing.
http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpm-depend-manual-dependencies.html#S3...
On the other hand, +1 if you mean just that relying on PreReq to cover
scriptlet dependencies is a no-no.
Originially, I was referring to PreReq in the
context of Jens' spec
file: He is running /usr/bin/chcon in a %post scriptlet.
I.e. he actually wants Requires(post) and doesn't want PreReq.
And ... given the difference between older "PreReq" and newer
"PreReq" (==Require), described in the link above, I am even stronger in
favor of "disallowing PreReq", to avoid problems related to the
behavioral changes.
> * To make file deps on tools being used in %pre|post scripts mandatory.
+1 when the tools are really required. An example when they are not is
eg. the GTK+ icon cache entry at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ScriptletSnippets
C.f. Jens spec file: He is using /usr/bin/chcon in a %post scriptlet and
"PreReq: coreutils".
This will break should /usr/bin/chcon be moved or removed.
Ralf