Hi, Regarding this text [1] in the Packaging Guidelines: " rpm automatically creates weak dependencies (Recommends) for packages which contain files owned by users and groups. In the future, those depencencies will be changed to Requires. "
The 'future' has apparently arrived, though I haven't noticed a change or announcement for it. In the latest Fedora Rawhide COPR build of MySQL, I've noticed auto-generated | Requires: group(mysql) user(mysql) for every sub-package. [2] As I still haven't pushed the sysusers.d changes to MariaDB and MySQL, this leads to a fun state where all of the MySQL sub-packages requires the 'mysql' user and group, but even though the MySQL server creates the user/group in %pre, officially it is only provided by MariaDB, with which the MySQL conflicts, so the MySQL cannot be installed. I'm not opposing this change, I just miss the announcement. So head's up anyone who might not yet update exclusively to the sysusers.d functionality. [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/UsersAndGroups/#_sharing_of_users_or_groups_between_packages [2] https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/mschorm/mysql-test/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/08853023-mysql8.4/builder-live.log.gz -- Michal Schorm Software Engineer Databases Team Red Hat -- -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
