On Friday 30 January 2009, David Tardon wrote: > I checked it on several packages; Actually, based on the following, you checked specfiles, not packages. See CAVEATS in the rpmlint man page. > for example, when I removed Name, > Version, Release, Group, Summary, License, URL, BuildArch, SourceX, > PatchX from F-10's dcobook-dtds, rmplint happily answered > > 0 packages and 1 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings. > > It seems to me rpmlint _will not_ fail if the tag is not around, As mentioned in another message in this thread and (quite vaguely) implied in the rpmlint manual page, rpmlint does not run these checks on specfiles but only on source and binary rpms. I just made upstream svn query specfiles using rpm and pipe errors to its output, so querying separately for this purpose is no longer necessary and specfile only checks have some more coverage. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
