[Rpmlint-discuss] Questions about distro/package specific suppression of an rpmlint?check

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 06:43:24PM +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Monday 26 January 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > (To rpmlint-discuss, CC'd to fedora-mingw)
> >
> > I would like to suppress certain rpmlint errors in a distro/package
> > specific way, ie. without needing to involve changes to upstream
> > rpmlint.
> 
> Starting from upstream rpmlint 0.86 (not yet released, but necessary patch 
> included in Fedora's 0.85-2), you have the option to drop additional *config 
> files to /etc/rpmlint/ and they will be read by rpmlint.
> 
> We discussed this in private mail in late october last year, I'm attaching the 
> mail I sent about this so others are aware of it as well, there are a few 
> message filtering recipes in it.  I also posted a quick note to fedora-devel 
> about it:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-November/msg00093.html

Thanks for reminding me about that email ...  I'll have a go at an
implementation based on that.

Rich.

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