[Mageia-dev] Rpmlint configuration, false positives

Sat Aug 27 23:02:19 CEST 2011

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de> wrote:
+> 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?
+
+this is not needed since 2004.
+
+commit 47ea5da7dd42de36b235b688205fb35f53e3cad6
+Author: jbj <devnull at localhost>
+Date:   Wed Oct 13 21:03:29 2004 +0000
+- silently add default %defattr(-,root,root) for all packages.
+