Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (31 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 01:43:42PM +0100, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
> 2011/1/7 Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>:
> > On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:38:49PM +0800, Chen, Zhang Z wrote:
> > > > My guess is that the package has a non-zero epoch and zypper
> > > > can't deal with it. Check the last line of:
> > > >    rpm -qp --provides mtf-0.0.1-1.i586.rpm
> > > >
> > > > If the package has an epoch, please open a bug report against zypper.
> > > Found the root cause: zypper expects a sourcerpm tag in binary packages.
> >
> > Yes, if a package doesn't contain a "sourcerpm" tag, it's a source
> > package.
>
> Just curiosity. There is a list of *mandatory* tags? At some point I
> looked into it and saw a lot of tags that I was not sure if were
> optional or mandatory.

I can't give you a list, I don't think there's a standard that
says that an rpm must have the following tags. You probably
need to create a rpm with only a few tags and check if rpm
segfaults or not ;-)

Here are some tags every rpm should have:

NAME, VERSION, RELEASE, ARCH
SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION
BUILDHOST, BUILDTIME
SIZE
LICENSE, GROUP
SOURCERPM (if it's a binary package)
PROVIDENAME, PROVIDEFLAGS, PROVIDEVERSION
PAYLOADFORMAT

I'm probably missing a few tags, feel free to experiment ;-)

Cheers,
  Michael.

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