On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 07:33:40PM +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote:
> Hi,
> Do .so files installed in %{python_sitearch} MUST be filtered? I
> see one reference at
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_Rpmlint_issues#private-shared-objec...
> but the filtering policy is not added to Python packaging
> guidelines. Also, why rpmlint complains it as warning and not an
> error? e.g. one case I see is
> pyorbit.x86_64: W: private-shared-object-provides
> /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/ORBit.so ORBit.so()(64bit)
> A shared object soname provides is provided by a file in a path
> from which other packages should not directly load shared objects
> from. Such shared objects should thus not be depended on and they
> should not result in provides in the containing package. Get rid
> of the provides if appropriate, for example by filtering it out
> during build. Note that in some cases this may require disabling
> rpmbuild's internal dependency generator.
>
Thanks for bringing this up!
I was looking at this for a package a few weeks ago and found that
this guideline was in the normal packaging guidelines:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/AutoProvidesAndRequiresFil...
but I did not remember approving it. It was moved into the main
packaging Guidelines when spot made the changes that moved the
backlog of approved guidelines from the Todo list into the main
guidelines. I found where we had discussed it the first time:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Minutes/20090602#t12:39
but after that meeting we (FPC) didn't meet for a while due to
different people being on vacation and thus not being able to make
quorum. Meeting logs are not present during this time so I can't
tell if I was on vacation and it was approved or if it got moved into
the main Guidelines by mistake.
This guideline would impact what we do for filtering private python
provides as it specifies:
"""
MUST: Packages must not provide RPM dependency information when that
information is not global in nature, [...]
MUST: When filtering automatically generated RPM dependency
information, the filtering system implemented by Fedora must be used
[...] """
Would it be possible to first make the macros.filtering linked from the
wiki page from above available by default?
Then it would be far easier to filter unwanted provides out, than
currently possible.
Thanks,
Thomas