On Thu, Apr 18, 2002, Christoph Schug wrote:
> do you know what happened to the idea of having something like a
> OpenPKG-lint program which does some tests on the .spec file and the
> package (both binary and source) in general?
>
> If it makes sense we should also add some checks to avoid DSO's as
> well as non-striped binaries. In both cases this would be tests against
> binary packages of course.
>
> What do you think about it? Do we already have some lint tool flyin'
> around and which can be enhanced this way?
I'm happy to see such a tool, because it is certainly a great idea
and would help a lot. I also tried to write such a tool a few months
ago when the idea popped up first. Unfortunately I was not successful
because I discovered that the problem is a lot more complex than it
looks at the first glance. But we should definitely try this again.
To be more successfully next time, we need first an exact list of what
should be linted. Let's start brain-storming, guys (add your items):
o specification: exact indentations
o specification: header (foo:) and section (%foo) ordering
o binary RPM: not existence of shared objects under lib/
o binary RPM: foo.N has to stay under man/manN/
o binary RPM: bin/foo, sbin/foo and libexec/foo has to be stripped
More?
Ralf S. Engelschall
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