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

Wed Jan 16 11:10:03 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 13/01/13 13:26 did gyre and gimble:
+> '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).
+
+Seems fedora also added tmpfiles support as well as ghosting - I've now
+fixed that up in the xen package.
+
+http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages?view=revision&revision=388627
+
+I also dropped the ghosting. At least for now I don't see how it creates
+any significant advantage that is worth the overhead.
+
+> 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.
+
+So this was apparently broken (as per TV's tests at least).
+
+As mentioned above, I've now added the tmpfiles snippets to create those
+folders. Fingers crossed that fixes it :)
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
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+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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