rpmlint warnings...

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 15 November 2009 at 21:59, Nathanael Noblet wrote:
> Hello,
>   So I recently posted my first package and the review. While I waited I started cleaning up more issues I found after I realized you could run rpmlint on the actual rpm and not just the spec file. I'd like the review to go as quickly as possible so I'm just trying to get all those warnings cleaned up.
> 
>   My package has a number of sub packages for various backend drivers. These subpackages basically contain a .so file for the most part however I'm getting rpmlint messages as follows
> 
> libdspam.x86_64: W: devel-file-in-non-devel-package /usr/lib64/libdspam.so
> 
> how is libdspam.so determined to be a devel file?

Shared objects (libraries) residing in %{_libdir} usually have names like
libfoo.so.X.Y.Z where X.Y.Z is their ABI version number. -devel subpackages
contain libfoo.so which is usually a link to libfoo.X.Y.Z and is used for
linking against libfoo (-lfoo in linker command line).

> libdspam.so.7.0.0: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped
> 
> Is what I get back from file. What is it that I'm missing?

Judging by the above, your libdspam.so should in fact be named
libdspam.so.7.0.0.

Regards,
R.

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