[Fedora-packaging] max. rpm file name length

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Jan 13 17:59:52 UTC 2009


Tom "spot" Callaway schrieb:
> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 06:40 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Current rpmlint is warning about rpm-filenames with length > 64,
>> issuing a warning "W: filename-too-long-for-joliet"
>>
>> Question: Do we care about this issue or not?
> 
> Nah. Everything not horribly broken will intelligently truncate.

OK, I hoped so.

I'll file a bug against rpmlint to stop this warning.

[A package review request of mine already is "almost stuck" because of 
this.]

Ralf




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