[Mageia-dev] Rpmlint configuration, false positives

Sat Aug 27 22:41:39 CEST 2011

Am 27.08.2011 22:19, schrieb Michael Scherer:
+> Le samedi 27 août 2011 à 22:06 +0200, Florian Hubold a écrit :
+>>
+>> What about the following, AFAIK those are deprecated and rpmlint shouldn't
+>> complain about:
+>>
+>> *files-attr-not-set*        as i was told by dmorgan, empty default attributes
+>> (%defattr(-,root,root))
+>> are useless and not needed, but without it rpmlint complains with this warning
+>> for every file.
+>> What's the status quoe here? rpmlint issue or maybe an rpm bug?
+>> Empty %defattr still needed or not and if not, could you make that warning an
+>> exception?
+> TO be really clean, this should be changed directly in rpmlint upstream
+> to remove the check. But as I do not know the various supported version
+> for this removal, I will add a filter.
+So someone with more insights wrt RPM should comment on this. dmorgan?
+
+>
+>> 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?
+> The question is rather, "why should another permission be used ?". If
+> not, we can end with 700 or anything weird.
+See my following mail.
+