On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 13:31 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: > On Jun 21, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Denis Washington wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 13:01 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: > >> > >> > >> OTOH, RPMTAG_FILESTATES is gonna matter a _LOT_. So > >> will leaving stale locks, and forgetting to attach stderr when > >> your widdle daemon forks. > > > > Could you explain what should go in RPM_FILESTATES? It's not listed in > > the LSB specification. > > > > Zeros are same as RPMFILE_STATE_NORMAL and will suffice. > > What is primarily important is that the tag exists (so the pointer > does not go NULL), > and that the memory is sized correctly (array of unsigned character > #files is the dimension). > RPMFILE_STATE_NORMAL is what most files have attached.
Ok, thanks. > Until one starts to get into multilib, another UNSPECIFIED area > that will affect ISV's that the LSB "Berlin API" is worfully silent on. Unfortunately I don't know about multilibs. > Hmmm, you have not included any scrtlets in you _register_package() > methods. AFAIK from listening to Ted T'so, the ability for an > ISV package to run scriptlets is an important need. Yeah. Post-install scripts are not needed as there is an ISV installer running which can do whatever it wishes. Pre-removal scripts should be there though. > Of courrse the "Berlin API" is woefully silent on how to include > scriptlet actions, and how/when those scriptlets should be run. That would have to be specified, naturally. The API is far from complete, but you have to start somewhere. Regards, Denis ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org LSB Communication List rpm-lsb@rpm5.org
