[Mageia-dev] Help needed: rpmlint checks not working

Sun Jan 13 14:26:51 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and AL13N at 12/01/13 21:42 did gyre and gimble:
+> Op zaterdag 12 januari 2013 22:24:35 schreef AL13N:
+>> Op zaterdag 12 januari 2013 16:43:09 schreef Colin Guthrie:
+>> [..]
+>>
+>>> There are currently ~70 ish packages to fix. I'll fix them up, but help
+>>> is welcome :)
+>>
+>> [...]
+>>
+>>> Then there are the udev rules :)
+>>
+>> [...]
+>>
+>>> I will do all of these but as I've said already, people are more than
+>>> welcome to fix some up :D
+>>>
+>>> Col
+>>
+>> i'll try and fix xen for both
+> 
+> it seems for xen, it doesn't seem so standard. fedora ghosted those 3, so i 
+> did that too.
+
+Ghosting achieves very little in this case. Does xen automatically
+create those directories happily without the need for tmpfiles? If so
+I'd personally not package them at all (as it just continues to show up
+in the list generated by the urpmf command listed earlier as a false
+positive).
+
+While ghosting does have the advantage that rpm -qf will return sort of
+valid results, it does make this transition period more difficult as it
+would mean our "list of packages" would never get smaller.
+
+I'm also not totally convinced that the rpm -qf use case is benefitial
+enough to keep package %files+%ghosts synced with tmpfiles contents,
+especially as the tmpfiles become part of the upstream package.
+
+If it could somehow become automated (i.e. via a packaging script) then
+I'd be happy to support that.
+
+So, question. Does xen actually work? There appears to be no tmpfiles in
+it and thus I don't see what creates those folders unless xen does it
+internally (i.e. like gdm does).
+
+Can you confirm it's OK without tmpfiles and I'll manually filter it out
+of my urpmf command. If you also feel there is no real point in ghosting
+here specifically and not in any of the other packages, please do remove
+the ghosts as it'll save that manual filtering.
+
+> no idea what to do with the udev parts, what is wrong with it?
+
+Nothing crazy. They just shouldn't be in /etc they should be in
+%_udevrulesdir when shipping in a package (and not be %config).
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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