After thinking that I got a perfect RPM binary file, tonight I decided to just check it out again before I try it on Koji. But to my surprise, it failed horribly. I find myself with 9 errors all related to these:
non-standard-executable-perm and zero-length,
and 122 warnings related to these:
hidden-file-or-dir, perl-temp-file, /usr/share/doc/ can't be used.
So I jumped onto the seneca channel on our irc
freenode server and looked for my teacher Chris.
We spend a total of 3 hours to solve this issue.
The way we solved the issues and warnings are as follows:
for the zero-length error, I did a search on like with the search pattern rpmlint zero-length error
and found a
fedora wiki showing me how to solve it.
All I needed to do is under the %install section I just needed to add
for file in $(find %{buildroot} -size 0) ; do
rm -f "$file"
done
which will find all files in my Build Root directory with the size 0 and delete them.
For the non-standard-executable-perm error, Professor Chris and I tried many strategies to overcome this obstacle
1. We changed the directory default attributes to %defattr(0755,root,root,0755), but that caused for errors than less, because now its telling us there are scripts missing the shebang line (#!/bin/bash) for those who are wondering. Of course we set it back to normal
2. In the %files section we changed to order of the directory listing and added another %defattr(-,root,root,-) line, but this time it went before %{_libdir} directory. And same permission settings %defattr(0755,root,root,0755), and again it failed, with the same issues.
3. Professor Chris noted we needed to add a %devel section, since we are using irssi development.
so I added the following sections with section headers
%description devel
Contains headers for irssi development
%files devel
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%{_includedir}/%{name}/
This solved most of our issues regarding /usr/include we were getting.
4. Finally we both came up with a solution to fix the program and our solution was
Professor Chris :
00:43 <@ctyler> find %{buildroot}/%{_libdir} -name '*.so' -exec chmod 0755 {}
\;
and mine
00:38 <> i found using this command removed those
non-standard-executable errors : chmod -R u+w
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/Irssi/
both worked well, and solved this 3 hour long thorn.
Lastly for our warnings, from advice from my professor, he suggested that I use a command that would wipe those files out, and the commands I used to do so was
find %{buildroot}/%{_libdir} -name '.packlist' -exec rm -f {} \;
find %{buildroot}/%{_libdir} -name '*.pod' -exec rm -f {} \;
That got rid of all those files and in the end, rpmlint finally gave me a checkered flag, and I am totally exhausted.
Below is the except, from my conversation with professor chris at the time we began and ended.
Time We Began
22:05 <@ctyler> bochao: pong
22:05 <> hi sir
22:06 <@ctyler> hi Boris
22:06 <@ctyler> how's it going?
....
Time we finished
00:50 <@ctyler> well now that you're down to 0 errors, I'm going to crash :-)
00:50 <@ctyler> goodnight Boris
00:50 <> thanks sir
Oh by the way, before I end it.
Installing Koji was a snap, I found a tutorial on
Fedora Wiki that totally guided me from start to finish. Now I just need to figure out how to use it.
Here are my final working rpms.
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