Bug 1039520 - rpmbuild: Subpackage names are not sanity checked.
Summary: rpmbuild: Subpackage names are not sanity checked.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: All
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Panu Matilainen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-12-09 10:37 UTC by Zdeněk Pavlas
Modified: 2014-04-09 01:00 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: rpm-4.11.2-1.fc20
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-01-20 13:52:39 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:

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A sample .spec file (167 bytes, text/x-rpm-spec)
2013-12-09 10:37 UTC, Zdeněk Pavlas 		no flags Details
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Description Zdeněk Pavlas 2013-12-09 10:37:08 UTC 
Created attachment 834301 [details]
A sample .spec file

Description of problem:

The argument to the '%package' directive is not sanity checked.  A space is rejected but almost anything else is accepted, including chars as ':' or '/'.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpmbuild -bb dummy.spec
2.
3.

Actual results:

Invalid rpm created.

Expected results:

An error.

Additional info:

Related bug: BZ 1039276
Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2014-01-08 13:56:45 UTC 
Fixed upstream now, in the sense that the same sanity check is applied to both main pkg name and sub-packages. Whether the existing sanity check is entirely sane is another topic :)
Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2014-01-20 13:52:39 UTC 
In rawhide now as of rpm >= 4.11.2
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-02-13 09:02:24 UTC 
rpm-4.11.2-1.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rpm-4.11.2-1.fc20
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2014-02-13 09:44:10 UTC 
rpm-4.11.2-1.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rpm-4.11.2-1.fc19
Comment 5 lnie 2014-02-14 06:53:02 UTC 
rpm-4.11.2-1.fc20 works
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-02-16 23:22:14 UTC 
rpm-4.11.2-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2014-04-09 01:00:46 UTC 
rpm-4.11.2-2.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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