RE: lsbpkgchk results for lsb-tet3-lite package

Stuart Anderson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.test-suite
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:

> There are a couple of issues here, neither of them major.
> I'm not sure if we ought to be making them journal file
> failures. Stuart, what do you think?
>
>> Incorrect RPMTAG_ARCH: expecting i486 but found i386

This one should be a failur in the journal.

> The LSB does allow 486-level instructions, and we normally
> build packages to the 486 level.  There's recently even
> been some comment (from Alan Cox, if I recall - did someone
> capture those?) that we ought to lift it a bit higher.

The LSB-IA32 actually specifies i486 instruction set.

>
>> Didn't see expected dependency lsb-core-ia32: 3.0
>
> We do think this is required.  I see you've commented
> it out in your specfile with a note that it often
> prevents packages from installing.  It's bit of a pain
> for development where we're trying to install in advance
> of official distro support (need to either use our
> informal lsb-dummy, or install with --nodeps if that
> is the case), but it IS something that needs to be in
> place for an LSB-conforming package.

Agreed.


                                 Stuart

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