Bug 468989

Summary:	arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object for MinGW packages
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component:	rpmlint	Assignee:	Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	10	CC:	manuel.wolfshant, tmz, ville.skytta
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2008-10-29 11:49:50 UTC

MinGW packaging guidelines were recently approved for Fedora:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/MinGW

Most MinGW packages are 'noarch'.  The reason is that although
they contain Windows binary code for Windows/i386, they are noarch
from the point of view of the build architecture
(Fedora/i386/ppc/whatever).

Thus it is OK for these packages to contain, for example, *.a,
*.dll and *.exe Windows binary files.

Example:

mingw32-gdbm.noarch: E: arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libgdbm.dll.a
(bug 467391)

If you wanted to be really specific here, it's OK for them
to contain only Windows COFF files:

$ file /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libgdbm.dll.a 
/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libgdbm.dll.a: current ar archive
$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir unpack
$ cd unpack/
$ ar x /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libgdbm.dll.a 
$ file *
d000000.o: 80386 COFF executable not stripped - version 24932
d000001.o: 80386 COFF executable not stripped - version 30821
[...]

If a MinGW noarch package contained Fedora native binaries then
that shouldn't happen and it would be a bug.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 04:25:22 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2009-09-09 15:41:26 UTC

Closing - rpmlint no longer reports this as a problem.