On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 13:31 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On Jun 21, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Denis Washington wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 13:01 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> OTOH, RPMTAG_FILESTATES is gonna matter a _LOT_. So
> >> will leaving stale locks, and forgetting to attach stderr when
> >> your widdle daemon forks.
> >
> > Could you explain what should go in RPM_FILESTATES? It's not listed in
> > the LSB specification.
> >
> 
> Zeros are same as RPMFILE_STATE_NORMAL and will suffice.
> 
> What is primarily important is that the tag exists (so the pointer  
> does not go NULL),
> and that the memory is sized correctly (array of unsigned character  
> #files is the dimension).
> RPMFILE_STATE_NORMAL is what most files have attached.

Ok, thanks.

> Until one starts to get into multilib, another UNSPECIFIED area
> that will affect ISV's that the LSB "Berlin API" is worfully silent on.

Unfortunately I don't know about multilibs.

> Hmmm, you have not included any scrtlets in you _register_package()
> methods. AFAIK from listening to Ted T'so, the ability for an
> ISV package to run scriptlets is an important need.

Yeah. Post-install scripts are not needed as there is an ISV installer
running which can do whatever it wishes. Pre-removal scripts should be
there though.

> Of courrse the "Berlin API" is woefully silent on how to include
> scriptlet actions, and how/when those scriptlets should be run.

That would have to be specified, naturally. The API is far from
complete, but you have to start somewhere.

Regards,
Denis