[Fedora-packaging] private-shared-object-provides in python packages

[Parag N(पराग़)]

Hi Toshio,

2010/9/28 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 07:33:40PM +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote:
>>>    Do .so files installed in %{python_sitearch} MUST be filtered? I
>>> see one reference at
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_Rpmlint_issues#private-shared-object-provides
>>> 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.
>>>
> I talked with spot and then went through old meeting logs and found that
> this was approved. on July 28, 2009.  I've added the logs from that meeting
> here:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Minutes/20090728
>
> Here's the Guidelines page that resulted from that meeting:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering
>
> Note that although we would like to filter out all of the unnecessary stuff,
> there are some packages where we shouldn't because of rpm limitations:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering#Usage
>
> The way to filter this out is probably something like this:
> # we don't want to provide private python extension libs
> %filter_provides_in %{python_sitearch}/.*\.so$
> # actually set up the filtering
> %filter_setup
>
> I've linked that page to the Packaging:Python page and also to the rpmlint
> page.
>
> I also found that the Packaging:Perl page was recommending a different
> recipe so I've put in a ticket to change those to the new macros:
>  https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/16

 Thanks you for quickly updating and explaining the filtering usage in
guidelines page.

Regards,
Parag.