[1354] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Linux-Athena as rpms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maciej Stachowiak)
Mon Jul 29 10:59:37 1996
To: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
Cc: warlord@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Jul 1996 21:54:06 EDT."
<199607290154.VAA29151@harlie.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 10:58:37 EDT
From: Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@MIT.EDU>
Well, RPM has a feature for making a particular package "own" a
directory, so that anything that gets put in it belongs to that
package automatically, and when the package is uninstalled the
directory gets removed. I think this would be useful for some of the
packages. The zephyr package should own /usr/athena/lib/zephyr/ for
instance. However, there is no way to tell from the files in lists
when a package should own a directory. Any suggestions on what to do
about this?
(There is also the issue of there being directories that belong to
Linux-Athena in general but no one specific package in particular. I
think this could be dealt with too, perhaps by making an athena-base
package that all of the others depend on whose sole purpose would be
to create directories when installed, remove them when removed, and no
own them. I think that is doable with rpm.)
- Maciej Stachowiak
