Hello Fedora Devs,
I'm currently going through the pre-review process for adding Ingres to
the Fedora distribution
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578024). I'm getting some
conflicting information for a couple of issues and I was hoping for some
clarification.
Firstly, "%defattr()". The standard says it should be
"%defattr(-.root,root-)" unless there is a good reason for it not to be.
The vast majority of the files included in the Ingres packages are owned
by the user 'ingres', which seems (IMHO) to be a good reason to use
"%defattr(-,ingres,ingres,-)". One reviewer disagreed, one agreed this
was probably OK but that I should check. What's the consensus here?
Next, use of -f in the %files section. There are over 1700 files between
the 4 RPMs and the ownership and permission for each file is maintained
by one of the build tools. The file lists are generated as part of the
build process, not stored statically in the source. In order to add the
file lists to the SPEC files, I would need to do full build of the exact
same source outside of RPM, generate the files list, add them to SPEC
file and then run the RPM build. This is a fairly large over head for
each update and makes maintenance a much larger task and much more
susceptible to human error. By using the -f flag, I can generate the
lists at build time using the existing manifest and they will always be
correct. %files -f is also used by PostgreSQL so it's not completely
outlawed. Am I OK to use it?
Thanks in advance for your help.
J
Jay Hankinson
Emerging Technologies Team
Ingres Corp
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