[Mageia-dev] Rpmlint configuration, false positives

Sat Aug 27 22:16:00 CEST 2011

On 27/08/2011 22:06, Florian Hubold wrote:
+> I think the following are bogus, but i may be totally wrong:
+>
+> *strange-permission * for SOURCES and SPEC it complains if not 0644, why
+> is that?
+rpmrebuild won't work if you can't read the files included in the source 
+package after extracting them.
+
+> *%ifarch-applied-patch* if the build is broken only for i586 for
+> example, what's wrong about the %ifarch?
+ >
+> Or maybe i don't get the description fully:
+>
+> /Patches must be applied on all architectures and may contain
+> necessary configure and/or code patch to be effective only on a given
+> arch./
+>
+> With the last part of the explanation and the warning itself, i'm
+> confused. If it is only
+> effective on one arch and fixed build there, why apply it blindly to the
+> other where this may break build
+> or have other unwanted sideeffects?
+Because you won't notice your patch doesn't apply anymore until you 
+build on the platform where it is actually applied. In most case, it 
+will be the buildbot which fails, whereas your own local build was OK. 
+The point here is 'the earlier it breaks, the quicker it gets noticed'.
+
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #47:
+
+Complete Transient Lockout
+