Bug 136857

Summary:	Horde packaging problems (noarch,noreplace)
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Björn Voigt <bjoernv>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Michal Marek <mmarek>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Alpha 3
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Björn Voigt 2005-12-04 21:55:01 UTC

I tested the package horde-3.0.7-2.i586.rpm from SuSE Linux 10.1 alpha3 and found some minor packaging problems there:

1) The architecture of horde is "noarch" and not "i586"
2) The configuration files have no "noreplace"-tag (I think this is better)
3) The test.php file will be installed, but leaving this may be a security risk
4) Some build requirements are not really necessary for building horde (for instance the C development packages)
5) The horde/config/.htaccess file will be deleted (but this file enhances security)

Hint: The PLD-distribution has an interesting horde SRPM file (ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/2.0/PLD/SRPMS/SRPMS/horde-3.0.5-4.src.rpm) with some patches. Also PLD includes some other Horde applications like horde-imp.

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-12-05 16:06:56 UTC

Reassigning this to the maintainer of this package.

Comment 2 Michal Marek 2005-12-15 10:45:22 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> I tested the package horde-3.0.7-2.i586.rpm from SuSE Linux 10.1 alpha3 and

Thanks!


> 1) The architecture of horde is "noarch" and not "i586"
> 2) The configuration files have no "noreplace"-tag (I think this is better)
> 3) The test.php file will be installed, but leaving this may be a security risk
...
> 5) The horde/config/.htaccess file will be deleted (but this file enhances
> security)

Good points (strictly speaking, *.mo files aren't noarch, since they are
little / big endian, but that shouldn't be an issue).


> 4) Some build requirements are not really necessary for building horde (for
> instance the C development packages)

Well, this is required by all SUSE SRPMS, it ensures some "standard"
build environment. The # neededforbuild line should give you a hint on
what's _really_ needed to build a particular package.


> Hint: The PLD-distribution has an interesting horde SRPM file
> (ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/2.0/PLD/SRPMS/SRPMS/horde-3.0.5-4.src.rpm) with
> some patches. Also PLD includes some other Horde applications like horde-imp.

There should be an imp RPM in (open)SUSE soon as well

Comment 3 Michal Marek 2006-01-16 15:39:48 UTC

Fixed for 10.1.