[Mageia-dev] Help needed: rpmlint checks not working

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 12 January 2013 16:45, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
>> It seems the rpmlint checks I added to detect (and prevent upload of)
>> files in /var/run and in /etc/udev/rules.d etc. are not working.
>>
>> Can someone see if I've done something wrong?
>
> The file distribution.error.list from rpmlint-mageia-policy is not used
> by the buildsystem to reject uploads. Instead it is using a list of
> rpmlint errors defined in youri configuration. I added them now :
> http://svnweb.mageia.org/adm/puppet/modules/buildsystem/templates/youri/submit-upload.conf?r1=2928&r2=2963
>
> Maybe we could change it to use distribution.error.list file instead.

We've a couple packages to fix. eg: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8672

  188/241: gkrellm               #############################################
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/lock/gkrellm: cpio: mkdir
failed - Inappropriate ioctl for device
error: gkrellm-2.3.5-6.mga3.x86_64: install failed

"urpmf /var/lock|sort -u" reports
filesystem:/var/lock
gkrellm:/var/lock/gkrellm
gnokii:/var/lock/gnokii
leafnode:/var/lock/news
rear:/usr/share/rear/skel/default/var/lock
rear:/usr/share/rear/skel/default/var/lock/lockdev
rear:/usr/share/rear/skel/default/var/lock/lockdev/.gitignore
rear:/usr/share/rear/skel/default/var/lock/lvm
rear:/usr/share/rear/skel/default/var/lock/lvm/.gitignore
rear:/usr/share/rear/skel/default/var/lock/subsys
rear:/usr/share/rear/skel/default/var/lock/subsys/.gitignore
uucp:/var/lock/uucp
vtun:/var/lock/vtund

Some are probably already %ghost but some are not (such as rear obviously)
and are breaking some builds