On 2003-08-12(Tue) 19:02:42 -0400, Levi Ramsey wrote: > The attached specfile creates a dummy package which will create and own > /usr/share/wallpapers/ which is currently owned by kdebase-common (and > possibly by other packages). However, it is quite plausible that other > packages that would have no reason to require KDE, thus implying that > some type of ownership of that directory would be required.
Actually I'd think this should be put into filesystem package instead,
since filesystem package is already there for this purpose. Creating
more packages solely for owning each directory sounds unnecessary and
over-engineered to me.
Are there any more directories unowned and used by many packages with no
dependency on each other? Currently I've seen:
/usr/share/wallpapers
/usr/share/dict
/usr/share/xml
Abel
> This aims to solve that problem by abstracting the ownership of the
> directory; packages putting stuff in this directory would simply require
> this package and ownership is no longer a problem. This also clears the
> way for a standardized location for wallpaper files, regardless of
> source.
>
> Obviously similar packagess could be made for directories where multiple
> packages that have no need for dependencies or conflicts between them.
>
> WDYT?
>
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> %define name wallpaper-dir
> %define version 1
> %define release 1mdk
>
> Summary: Dummy package to own wallpapers directory
> Name: %{name}
> Version: %{version}
> Release: %{release}
> License: GPL
> Group: Graphics
> BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-buildroot
>
> %description
> A package that simply manages the creation and ownership of
> /usr/share/wallpapers, thus allowing multiple packages to put files
> (presumably wallpaper files...) in that directory without having Requires
> on unnecessary packages or encountering directory ownership issues. All
> such a package has to do is Require wallpaper-dir and those problems
> are gone.
>
> %prep
>
> %build
>
> %install
> rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/wallpapers
>
> %clean
> rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
>
> %files
> %defattr(-,root,root)
> %dir %{_datadir}/wallpapers
>
> %changelog
> * Tue Aug 12 2003 Levi Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1-1mdk
> - First attempt... let's see if this works...
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