Bug 2374310

Summary:	Complaints about useless-provides for implicit unversioned/versioned provides of group
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Ulrik Haugen <ulrik.haugen>
Component:	rpmlint	Assignee:	Tom "spot" Callaway <spotrh>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	epel10	CC:	j, mhroncok, spotrh, twoerner, zbyszek
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Description Ulrik Haugen 2025-06-23 12:49:53 UTC

Description of problem:
From el10 rpmbuild (i think) creates both an unversioned and a versioned provides of group(*groupname*) when creating a group according to this pattern: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/UsersAndGroups/#_dynamic_allocation (the version appears to be a base64 encoded string of some of the sysusers data).

rpmlint does not approve and complains:

rpmlint gvm-libs.spec rpmbuild/SRPMS/gvm-libs-22.21.0-1liu2.el10.src.rpm rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/gvm-libs-*
rpmlint session starts
rpmlint: 2.7.0
configuration:
    /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/rpmlint/configdefaults.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora-legacy-licenses.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora-spdx-licenses.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/scoring.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/users-groups.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/warn-on-functions.toml
checks: 31, packages: 6

gvm-libs.x86_64: E: useless-provides group(gvm)
...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm -q rpmlint
rpmlint-2.7.0-3.el10_1.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpmbuild package using sysusers to provision a group on el10
2. rpmlint the package on el10

Actual results:
Complaints about
"gvm-libs.x86_64: E: useless-provides group(gvm)"

Expected results:
No error about provides that i can't influence (short of ignoring Fedoras advice and devising some n.i.h. way to provision the group). 

Additional info:
Easily worked around with a filter so not particularly severe.

Comment 1 Miro Hrončok 2025-06-23 13:11:24 UTC

We could:

 - stop generating the provides without version (cc @zbyszek.pl )
 - filter the warning in rpmlint upstream
 - filter the warning in rpmlint downstream (see https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rpmlint/blob/rawhide/f/fedora.toml )