Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > In my proposed patch to 8.51 I include some common checks that could be > included in alien to anticipate some common mistakes: > > 1) when the rpm file is empty (think of 'wget -q -O somerpm > http://someplace' and that place is 404) > 2) when the rpm files are not readable by the running user (think: rpm > downloaded by some user that other tries to convert) > > Since the rpm calls are going to break later on it would be best to detect > this simple bugs first IMHO.
I'm not applying this patch because these checks seem approximatly as useful to me as gcc checking for zero size or not readable input files. Which it doesn't do, and it does let something further down the toolchain complain about it instead. -- see shy jo
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