Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Python macro improvements (#221)

2017-06-02 Thread Russ Herrold
My archive of unpacked .spec file disputes @ignatenkobrain comment above -- backward compatibility matters [herrold@centos-7 SPECS]$ grep "\%py" *spec | grep -v ":#" | wc 39 1461953 [herrold@centos-7 SPECS]$ grep "\%py" *spec | grep -v ":#" BitTorrent.spec:%pyrequires_eq

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] WIP/RFE: Hint to users to use ostree/rpm-ostree if we get EROFS (#320)

2017-09-07 Thread Russ Herrold
As I understand the model for rpm-ostree, it assumes a Read Only, and re-located RPMDB Wouldn't a more general fix than the one seemingly already committed about inability to calculate TS disk size requirements, be a simply attempt to connect with the BDB and get a lockfile? this would

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Make %setup defaults smarter (#371)

2017-12-14 Thread Russ Herrold
> Yes, right. Then you won't have any problem finding hundreds of packages Under the present system, my tooling runs and provides sub-second look-ups on a corpus of (today) 796479 packagings Stop picking a fight -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Make %setup defaults smarter (#371)

2017-12-13 Thread Russ Herrold
> The probability anyone will create an archive containing a %{name}-%{version} > topdir while not named %{name}-%{version} is vanishingly smal My build tools do this 'different %_topdir naming' on ** every ** build It might make sense to actually use rpmbuild for a decade or so before

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Make %setup defaults smarter (#371)

2017-12-13 Thread Russ Herrold
No 'quirks' at all ... I have built my tools with the rpm and rpmbuild man pages open, and consulting: rpm --showrc That's how developing in an Unixy (tm) environment works I know what is not a good idea on the Usenet ... ahh, times change so silly me, having been the editor of RPM.ORG

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Moving unnecessary notice about empty rpm packages to debug message. (#615)

2018-12-21 Thread Russ Herrold
if the problem is an empty file being queried, why not solve teh problem where the action occurs (before the test), with something simple like: [ -s $ARG ] && ... I don't see that this is the rpm binary's issue -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to