Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/1] mkrpm: Add some post actions.

[George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 12:55 -0400, Don Slutz wrote:
>> After install:
>>
>> re-run grub2-mkconfig if valid
>> run ldconfig to fix shared libraries
>
> At least for the Debian equivalent we explicitly do not do this sort of
> thing and have nacked such patches in the past.
>
> The deb integration stuff is intended to be exactly "a tarball which can
> be uninstalled", no more. Perhaps George has other opinions wrt to the
> RPM stuff.
>
> Please see the archives for previous discussions wrt the deb stuff (I
> think there was a patch from Fabio in particular which spawned a thread
> similar to what I imagine this one will become).

IIRC the issue there was in part about not wanting to officially
maintain / support the package as a package.  Making it a bit hobbled
(not updating grub2 or calling ldconfig again) was seen as something
to help keep it developer-only.

However, if there were enough commonality between the various
downstreams that build RPMs (Fedora, CentOS, XenServer), would it make
sense to try to make a standard spec file shared between them?

Just tossing this out there... I don't really know how useful it will
be in practice.

 -George

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