On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Florian Hubold <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 27.08.2011 22:19, schrieb Michael Scherer: >> >> Le samedi 27 août 2011 à 22:06 +0200, Florian Hubold a écrit : >>> >>> What about the following, AFAIK those are deprecated and rpmlint >>> shouldn't >>> complain about: >>> >>> *files-attr-not-set* as i was told by dmorgan, empty default >>> attributes >>> (%defattr(-,root,root)) >>> are useless and not needed, but without it rpmlint complains with this >>> warning >>> for every file. >>> What's the status quoe here? rpmlint issue or maybe an rpm bug? >>> Empty %defattr still needed or not and if not, could you make that >>> warning an >>> exception? >> >> TO be really clean, this should be changed directly in rpmlint upstream >> to remove the check. But as I do not know the various supported version >> for this removal, I will add a filter. > > So someone with more insights wrt RPM should comment on this. dmorgan?
this is not needed since 2004. commit 47ea5da7dd42de36b235b688205fb35f53e3cad6 Author: jbj <devnull@localhost> Date: Wed Oct 13 21:03:29 2004 +0000 - silently add default %defattr(-,root,root) for all packages.
