On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Per Øyvind Karlsen <[email protected]>wrote:

> I did the other day a fresh mandriva cooker install and noticed with rpm
> 4.6.0 a welcomed
> change, the automatic creation and use of a local ~/rpmbuild for user
> rather than /usr/src/rpm.
>
> Since this makes it easier to just get a working rpm build environment for
> user and also
> removes the implicit encouragement of packaging using /usr/src/rpm as root,
> would anyone
> have anything against introducing same behaviour as rpm.org in rpm5.orgHEAD?
>


I agreed that it is a "nice" feature for a luser, as i am for example. But
in rpm5.org there are some many
"nice" feature, some present from a long time, mostly useful for a good
distro and for a sysadmin. In fact many are requested today from the
developer of fedora - just for example the rollback support -dropped from
rpm4.6, runtime probe, parent dir e filelinkto deps, the full portability
with so much platform - included RHEL4, RHEL5 where rpm4.6 is not - if ever
- portable.

So do you think it is "nice" to port these feature into rpm.org ? If yes,
why exists in first place the rpm.org <-> rpm5.org duality ?

But everyone know already.

Regards

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