-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Han Boetes wrote: > Gwenole Beauchesne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>Exactly! Too maintainers simply don't care about their packages. This >>is a means to bring attention to possible new files added through >>packages updates and also fix existing packages that have missing >>files. > > > I had to disable the warning for two packages because it complained > about doc-files that were installed by the install target in the wrong > directory. I have to use the %doc macro for the docs.
Many packages install docs to the wrong place, they should either be fixed (and the fix upstreamed) or hacked around ... preferably fixed. Of course, many packages insist on needing root permissions in their install target :-(. > > Once again I think it is a good idea to have something that tells me > that I some files are not in the package, but more than a warning is not > good. Now I have to outsmart your script and it will result in me > turning it off and then the script would loose all funtion. > > I always read all output from the rpm build process and I always use > rpmlint to search for possible errors. So if your script would warn it > would be a usefull addition. > IMHO, a more useful exit would be when a file listed in %doc doesn't exist. At the moment, if one file in %doc is missing, all the files after it are excluded, *silently*. You only get the warning about one missing file, %doc exits non-zero, but rpm happily builds a bad package. This has caused samba to ship with only about 15% of it's docs for a number of (not-in-final-distro) releases. I actually put this as a bug in bugzilla against rpm ... Tell me again, is bugzilla going to be used? Buchan - -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE908pgrJK6UGDSBKcRAh+qAJ9BpI3ss6iuhEV56bqOgxtpQrlkcACeN4wV hsN/lbAcZ0qbyWy1U0/0gxg= =8+X8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
