Fred's blog

While my check isn't integrated in rpmlint, I'm distributing lsbrpmlint as a standalone package to be installed after rpmlint. Feedback welcome.

• tar ball
• binary package

Here is the changes since the last patch:

• check cron files and profile files
• check package name against the list at lanana.org
• load the InitScript and Tags checks

I'm not sure this is a good idea to test against lanana.org names because one can want to register later and there is some delay in the registration. Alternatively I could only check for name coherency between the different files and directories. WDYT ?

I would also need a way to change the level of the report on other checks from warning to error and also from error to warning without changing the source. I need to think more about this.

I don't know why but this golf season was very bad. I lost one point of index :-(

And to crown it all, I broke my driver this summer. I play now with a Callaway X460 but I need to be more familiar with it ;-)

I have updated unison spec file to fix a buildependency.

Built a python-numpy spec file.

I'm proposing my help to the open source projects that want to distribute their software as binary packages. The idea is to demonstrate that the LSB is a viable way to deliver binaries for the open source projects. The LSB isn't reserved to proprietary ISV! Contact me at flepied at gmail.com and I'll help you with LSB packaging.

I had to setup my free.fr SIP phone to be able to join a phone meeting in 30 mn. Having lost my password and having no SIP client of choice, it was a challenge! Hoppefully I remembered a discussion with one of my co-coworker about twinkle (thanks Paul!). So I downloaded an src.rpm from Cooker (Mandriva Linux development version) to be sure to have a well integrated and up to date package for my Mandriva Linux 2006 system. The package was at version 0.8 so I dowloaded the 0.8.1 version and rebuilt the package (using this spec file for those interested in rebuilding on Mandriva Linux 2006). I requested a new password from my SIP provider (free.fr) and I was just in time for my meeting!

For those interested, I use the cooker.sh script to speed up my download and recompile from Cooker.