Finding all the source packages that include a copy of valgrind.h

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Sep 15 10:26:48 UTC 2014


On 09/15/2014 11:21 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 11:42 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
>> Thanks. That is a much bigger list than the packages I already filed
>> bugs for based on the reproquery against the debuginfo packages.
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141461
>> Specifically missing are: cockpit, exim, gearmand, ghostscript, ipxe,
>> libmemcached, mingw-glib2, mingw-qt5-qtjsbackend, mongodb, openvswitch,
>> qemu, R, realmd, rubygem-passenger, squid, wine-mono.
>>
>> I think that means they either don't enable valgrind support in the
>> binary package or they don't generate proper debuginfo. I assume it
>> still makes sense to file a bug report against these packages so the
>> maintainer can investigate. If it turns out the package source does
>> include a private copy of valgrind.h, but they don't actually
>> use/activate support for it in the binary package, how should the
>> package be marked?
>
> I checked out and prepped all the above packages. Some of the above were
> false positives.
Quite likely. As I said, this was a more or less brute-force, scripted 
"unpackage/prep/find valgrind.h"-loop over all src.rpms.
I let it run over my local rawhide mirror, over night :-)

Ralf


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