Hi, As a first-time Package Maintainer, I've come to realize what a great tool rpmlint is. Even after reading the Package Maintainers Guideline, I found rpmlint helpful in reminding me of things I've read but just forgotten (and, *abashedly*, let me know of things I skipped over). Best of all, most of the "info" it provided told me what the problem was, and some of the info even told me what to do about it. The enhancement I'm making a request of is to actually improve that latter part: the informing the PM what to do with regards to an error. Rpmlint is in a great position to know details of user's error. What would be nice is if there was a main database of Errors and Warnings as well as ways to fix it. It would be nice if rpmlint (via the -i option) could provide more information about fixing the problem. It could also have URL at the bottom with a link to a wiki which could contain more information (in case it's too long to add to the docs), and the wiki could have user contributed notes at the bottom (a'la http://docs.php.net/manual/en/). There could be one error or warning per page. Example output: $ rpmlint -i package-<version>.<arch>.rpm package.<arch>: W: incoherent-version-in-changelog 0.99.7-1.fc7 1.0-1.fc7 The last entry in %changelog contains a version identifier that is not coherent with the epoch:version-release tuple of the package. Read more at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ParagNemade/CommonRpmlintErrors#head-361831a4bde352cd7587024823d9a3a40464d225 +----------+ +------+ | Database | <----> | Wiki | +==========+ +------+ | Errors | | Fixes | +---------+ | Warnings | -----> | rpmlint | | Fixes | +---------+ +----------+ Currently, there are 2 pages on the Wiki (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ParagNemade/CommonRpmlintErrors and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/CommonRpmlintIssues ) but they hasn't kept up with rpmlint and is incomplete. It also has some nice nuggets that's missing from rpmlint. This may not mean much to seasoned packagers, but wannabes are going to find this golden. If that's too complicated, how about an update of the CommonRpmlintErrors page, at the least? ;) -- Richi Plana -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
