Bug 750250

Summary:	EPEL5 rpmlint reports "manpage-not-compressed bz2"
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Mattias Ellert <mattias.ellert>
Component:	rpmlint	Assignee:	manuel wolfshant <manuel.wolfshant>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	el5	CC:	manuel.wolfshant
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Description Mattias Ellert 2011-10-31 13:34:45 UTC

Description of problem:
As an example - running rpmlint on itself says:
rpmlint.noarch: W: manpage-not-compressed bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/rpmlint.1.gz

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpmlint-0.94-2.el5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpmlint rpmlint

Actual results:
manpage-not-compressed bz2

Expected results:
No warning - since the man page is gz compressed and this is the default compression type for manpages in EPEL5

Additional info:
If I try to work around it by adding

-o "CompressExtension 'gz'"

to the rpmlint command this doesn't work. There seems to be something wrong with the command line parsing in EPEL5 rpmlint. This option works fine on Fedora.

rpmlint -o "CompressExtension 'gz'" rpmlint
(none): E: no installed packages by name 'gz'

Comment 1 manuel wolfshant 2011-10-31 13:52:51 UTC

Well, technically the message is correct. The manpages are compressed using gzip not bzip2.
I'll look into it.

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2017-04-06 10:35:30 UTC

Fedora EPEL 5 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2017-03-31. Fedora EPEL 5
is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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