RpmLintImprovement

Draft Documents
These are documents in a draft state, you rely upon them at your own risk.

Recently some requirements to rpmlint functionality occurs. This wiki page tries to summarize them and provide information about progress of the implementation.

• Rpmlint should check if there are manual page for each binary/script
  • BugZilla: 572090
  • Status: Patch proposed

• Rpmlint should check if there isn't two binaries with same name in the standard binary directories
  • BugZilla: 572090
  • Status: Applied upstream

• Rpmlint should check usage of deprecated egrep/fgrep
  • BugZilla: 571386
  • Status: Applied upstream

• Rpmlint should check if specfile contains both Fedora and RHEL conditional
  • BugZilla: 572158
  • Status: Patch proposed

• Rpmlint should check macros in the comments
  • BugZilla: 571375
  • Status: Applied upstream

TODO:

This checks are in planning state. It is not even decided if they are doable.

• One file in two subpackages (Issues: %files -f for reading file list from file; usage of *)

If you have some suggestions for another useful rpmlint features, please contact Rnovacek.