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

[Ville Skyttä]

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

> The other problem is that dropping files into /usr/share/rpmlint isn't
> manageable from RPM.  Firstly it requires editing an array entry in
> /usr/share/rpmlint/Config.py.  Secondly (less importantly) it means
> that our base package would need to depend on rpmlint.

Instead of modifying /usr/share/rpmlint/Config.py it should be possible to add 
entries to the list of checks to run programmatically from 
a /etc/rpmlint/*config snippet.  There's Config.addCheck(SomeCheck) but I 
suppose using that would mean that *only* the added check(s) would be run, 
unless you also do addCheck for all of Config.DEFAULT_CHECKS.  This is ugly, 
I'll look into doing something about it.  This stuff might also interfere 
with the -c/--check option, I'll look into that too.

It should also be possible to install additional checks wherever you want on 
the filesystem (doesn't have to be /usr/share/rpmlint) and add the dirs to 
rpmlint's load path by using Config.addCheckDir(dir) from 
a /etc/rpmlint/*config file.  Or in rpmlint >= 0.86, by adding dirs to 
sys.path or PYTHONPATH in environment.

Note that all of the above is from memory, I haven't actually tried it.  And 
when I added the feature to read /etc/rpmlint/*config, I was primarily 
thinking just about message filtering.
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