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

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 15 January 2013 19:17, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>>>>>>> Will this affect mga2 builds too? It shouldn't there so hopefully there
>>>>>>> is no conflict :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hmm, actually it probably applies to Mageia 2 builds too. I will try to
>>>>>> change this.
>>>>>
>>>>> This should now be fixed.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://svnweb.mageia.org/adm/puppet/modules/buildsystem/templates/youri/submit-upload.conf?r1=2963&r2=2967
>>>>
>>>> Isn't that commit showing we didn't rejected some packages which
>>>> should have been due to missing rules?
>>>
>>> Yes, we didn't reject some packages which should have been. Until this
>>> commit :
>>> http://svnweb.mageia.org/adm/puppet/modules/buildsystem/templates/youri/submit-upload.conf?r1=2928&r2=2963
>>>
>>> But after this one we were rejecting too much on Mageia 2. Now it should
>>> be ok on Cauldron and Mageia 2.
>>
>> Well no. No as in it may be possible that some updates upload will
>> break due to some error now being detected and rejected.
>> Could we script a pass on all packages with that rpmlint config to
>> catch any such packages and fix them?
>
> Well the first commit certainly applied to updates (and I queried as
> much), but I think the second commit means it only applies to cauldron,
> not any updates to mga2 etc.

My point is we just added to _CAULDRON_ == mga3 a lot of rules that were missed,
just after mass rebuild, and I fear that when we'll try to issue
updates to _mga3_,
we may see some being rejected, this is why I ask we check current cauldron
with upload server rpmlint config...