On Feb 24, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Stew Benedict wrote: > Hello All, > > Apologies if this is a FAQ. I didn't find a lot of info looking around. > We have a user that's using rpm-5.1.9 and finding that certain packages > we provide cannot be installed due to unowned directories. I acknowledge > this is an issue with the packages, but as a way to test I'd like to be > able to enable this type of strict checking on a test system. >
There's --noparentdirs (and --nolinktos) disablers on the CLI.
There's a patch to use a macro disabler used in Ark and Mandriva
(but you're gonna have to recompile).
What I do is this:
mkdir -p /etc/rpm/sysinfo
rpm -Va --nofiles --orphandirs > /etc/rpm/sysinfo/Dirnames
i.e. its possible to stub out dependencies through configuration @rpm5.org.
(aside)
To stub out Requires: its /etc/rpm/sysinfo/Providename, same (SuSE German ;-)
1st letter capitalized, rest lower case, from RPMTAG_PROVIDENAME.
> Test system is cooker, rpm-5.3.8. Is there a patch or a config option I
> can apply to build rpm with this type of checking enabled?
>
> ref: http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3195
>
There is ... code looks like this in lib/depends.c to enable a macro
to persistently enable/disable the behavior transparently:
#if defined(RPM_VENDOR_MANDRIVA) || defined(RPM_VENDOR_ARK) /*
optional-dirname-and-symlink-deps */
dirname_deps =
rpmExpandNumeric("%{?_check_dirname_deps}%{?!_check_dirname_deps:1}");
if (dirname_deps) {
#endif
...
#if defined(RPM_VENDOR_MANDRIVA) || defined(RPM_VENDOR_ARK) /*
optional-dirname-and-symlink-deps */
}
symlink_deps =
rpmExpandNumeric("%{?_check_symlink_deps}%{?!_check_symlink_deps:1}");
if (symlink_deps) {
#endif
Working on the "LSB 5.0 Package Standard", eh? ;-)
hth
73 de Jeff
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