[Fedora-packaging] Proposal to explicitly allow dos2unix

Alexey Torkhov atorkhov at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 07:11:31 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 14:49 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 01:44:12AM +0400, Alexey Torkhov wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > In guidelines in common errors section
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Rpmlint_Errors
> > there is the following phrase:
> > ---
> > This error occurs because of DOS line breaks in a file. Fix it with sed
> > in the %prep section: %{__sed} -i 's/\r//' src/somefile -- DONT use
> > dos2unix, that can cause build fail on FC3.
> > ---
> > 
> > Because FC3 is not supported for long time, I'm proposing to change it
> > to:
> > ---
> > This error occurs because of DOS line breaks in a file. Fix it with in
> > the %prep section with sed: <code>%{__sed} -i 's/\r//'
> > src/somefile</code> or dos2unix.
> > ---
> > 
> > Packaging draft is created at
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Dos2unix
> > and added to DraftsTodo page.
> > 
> > Waiting for comments.
> 
> Since RHEL4 is based on FC3, would the dos2unix concerns be valid there
> was well?  Presumably EPEL packages are covered by the packaging
> guidelines above...

Supposedly, the bug that results in fail is
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=150277

Updated the draft with the note that should be added to EPEL-specific
guidelines.

Alexey




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