rpmlint says 'no-jar-manifest'

Colin Walters walters at redhat.com
Mon Mar 3 21:18:12 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 13:10 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I get this error from rpmlint, but there's not much guidance on what
> to do about it.  Apparently it's because the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file
> is missing from the jar file.  However these jar files still seem to
> work OK with everything I've tried, so should I just ignore this?
> 
> ocaml-ocamljava.i386: E: no-jar-manifest /usr/lib/ocaml/threads.jar

This looks like an rpmlint bug; the jar spec says that manifest files
are optional (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jar/jar.html).





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