Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (140 mails)

[Ruediger Oertel <ro@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Jean Delvare wrote:

> Le vendredi 08 février 2008, Dirk Mueller a écrit :
> > Hopefully soon the new rpmlint checks will be enabled in BETA, which might be
> > more strict and can cause new packages to fail. There was no particular new
> > check added, just that some of the slow brp scripts were rewritten and
> > integrated into rpmlint for performance and ease of maintenance.
> >
> > There might be fallout: false positives and false negatives. Please let me
> > know if you find anything particularly interesting so that I can improve the
> > checks.
>
> Got this error this morning:
>
> sensors.src:99: E: dot-in-identifier (Badness: 10000) Provides: 
> sensors:/usr/include/sensors/sensors.h
> For buildsystem internal reasons, suse disallows the usage of dot's in
> dependency tokens (package names, provides, requires and similar). Please
> rename the token.
>
> This seems to be the standard way to handle package splits,
> this provides statement was suggested to me by Stephan Kulow.
> Is this a false positive in rpmlint, or is there a new syntax
> to handle this case?

no, your example is perfectly fine.
Actually, the dots are only unwanted in package names, and for a safety check
we wanted to block the same thing in requires. But a
  Requires: foo >= 1.0
is something completely different than
  Requires: foo-1.0
where the top one requires a package of name "foo" in version at least "1.0"
and the lower one requires a package of name "foo-1.0" in any version.

Provides in general and the split-provides are a different story.

Unsolved is the Requiring of path-names. Probably the rule should be:

To be consistent with the "." not being wanted in a package name,
a requires should not contain a "." in the REQUIRENAME unless
that provides also contains a "/".

--
with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen),
   Ruediger Oertel (ro@xxxxxxxxxx,ro@xxxxxxx,bugfinder@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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