[Rpm-maint] Re: ACL and File Capability Support in RPM

2008-09-03 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Andreas Gruenbacher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello all, I am trying to get the minimal bits and pieces into place for allowing us to start using file capabilties. Currently, rpm neither supports acls nor file capabilities [1], and so when they are needed, the usual way is to set

Re: [Rpm-maint] Scalability of RPM

2008-09-03 Thread Christoph Wissing
Hi Florian, thanks a lot for your reply. Some short remarks/questions inline. On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:20:24 +0200 Florian Festi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Christoph, I am currently working on the scalability issues in rpm. Very good and good luck! We are intested in testing.

Re: [Rpm-maint] Question about changing the name of an RPM

2008-09-03 Thread Mark Hatle
The filename does not affect the contents of the RPM package. So if you set the version to 1, the release to 1. And then name filename: foo-2-300.bar.rpm RPM is going to install the package using a version of 1 and a release of 1. On many systems, the filename is truncated to be simply

[Rpm-maint] 4.5.90 and %expanding %%package from macro

2008-09-03 Thread Axel Thimm
Hi, I'm very often using constructs that create a macro that is later expanding before %install defining several subpackages (like the debuginfo packages do). This worked for all version of rpm as far back as RHL8, but breaks now with F10. The simplified construct is as follows: Some macro file