[Fedora-packaging] rpmlint error: htaccessfile

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 07:07:00AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 08/15/2011 06:59 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 06:50 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >> Providing the precise error you experience as well as a reference to
> >> the
> >> srpm in question would help
> 
> > http://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/openemr/openemr.spec
> > http://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/openemr/openemr-4.0.0-1.fc15.src.rpm
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730691
> >
> > Error related to two files only:
> >
> >> openemr.noarch: E: htaccess-file /usr/share/openemr/phpmyadmin/libraries/.htaccess
> >> openemr.noarch: E: htaccess-file /usr/share/openemr/sites/default/documents/.htaccess
> 
> OK, rpmlint is sparse on the rationale for marking this an error, so 
> perhaps we can attack this from the other angle... why does this package 
> need to ship with these included?
> 
> If that answer can sufficiently justify the need (vs, say shipping 
> apache .conf snippets instead), then that may be good enough to ignore 
> rpmlint in this case.
> 
In general, hidden files aren't desirable, so put another way, rpmlint is
asking you to consider writing this into an apache conf file instead of
using .htaccess files.

-Toshio
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