Bug 2477183 - Review Request: sassist - Dell SupportAssist log collector agent for Linux
Summary: Review Request: sassist - Dell SupportAssist log collector agent for Linux
Keywords:
Status: POST
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Benson Muite
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/learn/...
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-05-13 17:52 UTC by Charles Rose
Modified: 2026-07-08 19:33 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Embargoed:
benson_muite: fedora-review+


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Description Charles Rose 2026-05-13 17:52:15 UTC
Spec URL: https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/charlesrose/sassist/srpm-builds/10456501/sassist.spec
SRPM URL: https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/charlesrose/sassist/srpm-builds/10456501/sassist-0.8.9-1.src.rpm
Description: Dell SupportAssist log collector for Linux.
Fedora Account System Username: charlesrose

Detailed Description: Dell iDRAC can trigger OS configuration and log collection (with sos) to help with debugging customer issues in the field.

Dell PowerEdge Servers running fedora with "sassist" installed and enabled will be able to satisfy Dell iDRAC requests to collect OS config/log information and pass it over via a virtual USB block device along with checksum information. The logs are then combined by Dell iDRAC with other useful server troubleshooting information to assist the support personnel debug issues.

Comment 1 Fedora Review Service 2026-05-13 17:57:09 UTC
Copr build:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/build/10456515
(succeeded)

Review template:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/@fedora-review/fedora-review-2477183-sassist/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/10456515-sassist/fedora-review/review.txt

Found issues:

- A package with this name already exists. Please check https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/sassist
  Read more: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Naming/#_conflicting_package_names

Please know that there can be false-positives.

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Comment 2 Charles Rose 2026-07-08 01:52:26 UTC
Hello Benson,
Can you please review this request and let me know if you have feedback?

Comment 3 Benson Muite 2026-07-08 19:33:45 UTC
Package Review
==============

Legend:
[x] = Pass, [!] = Fail, [-] = Not applicable, [?] = Not evaluated
[ ] = Manual review needed


Issues:
=======
- Package does not use a name that already exists.
  Note: A package with this name already exists. Please check
  https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/sassist
  See: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-
  guidelines/Naming/#_conflicting_package_names


===== MUST items =====

Generic:
[x]: Package is licensed with an open-source compatible license and meets
     other legal requirements as defined in the legal section of Packaging
     Guidelines.
[x]: License field in the package spec file matches the actual license.
     Note: Checking patched sources after %prep for licenses. Licenses
     found: "Unknown or generated", "MIT License", "GNU General Public
     License v3.0 or later and/or MIT License", "*No copyright* MIT
     License". 23 files have unknown license. Detailed output of
     licensecheck in /home/fedora-packaging/reviews/sassist/2477183-
     sassist/licensecheck.txt
[x]: Package contains no bundled libraries or specifies bundled libraries
     with Provides: bundled(<libname>) if unbundling is not possible.
[ ]: Changelog in prescribed format.
[x]: Sources contain only permissible code or content.
[-]: Package contains desktop file if it is a GUI application.
[-]: Development files must be in a -devel package
[x]: Package uses nothing in %doc for runtime.
[x]: Package consistently uses macros (instead of hard-coded directory
     names).
[x]: Package is named according to the Package Naming Guidelines.
[x]: Package does not generate any conflict.
[x]: Package obeys FHS, except libexecdir and /usr/target.
[-]: If the package is a rename of another package, proper Obsoletes and
     Provides are present.
[x]: Requires correct, justified where necessary.
[x]: Spec file is legible and written in American English.
[x]: Package contains systemd file(s) if in need.
[x]: Package is not known to require an ExcludeArch tag.
[ ]: Package complies to the Packaging Guidelines
[x]: Package successfully compiles and builds into binary rpms on at least
     one supported primary architecture.
[x]: Package installs properly.
[x]: Rpmlint is run on all rpms the build produces.
     Note: There are rpmlint messages (see attachment).
[x]: If (and only if) the source package includes the text of the
     license(s) in its own file, then that file, containing the text of the
     license(s) for the package is included in %license.
[x]: The License field must be a valid SPDX expression.
[x]: Package requires other packages for directories it uses.
[x]: Package must own all directories that it creates.
[x]: Package does not own files or directories owned by other packages.
[x]: Package uses either %{buildroot} or $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
[x]: Package does not run rm -rf %{buildroot} (or $RPM_BUILD_ROOT) at the
     beginning of %install.
[x]: Macros in Summary, %description expandable at SRPM build time.
[x]: Dist tag is present.
[x]: Package does not contain duplicates in %files.
[x]: Permissions on files are set properly.
[x]: Package must not depend on deprecated() packages.
[x]: Package use %makeinstall only when make install DESTDIR=... doesn't
     work.
[x]: Package is named using only allowed ASCII characters.
[x]: Package is not relocatable.
[x]: Sources used to build the package match the upstream source, as
     provided in the spec URL.
[x]: Spec file name must match the spec package %{name}, in the format
     %{name}.spec.
[x]: systemd_post is invoked in %post, systemd_preun in %preun, and
     systemd_postun in %postun for Systemd service files.
     Note: Systemd service file(s) in sassist
[x]: File names are valid UTF-8.
[x]: Large documentation must go in a -doc subpackage. Large could be size
     (~1MB) or number of files.
     Note: Documentation size is 0 bytes in 0 files.
[x]: Packages must not store files under /srv, /opt or /usr/local

===== SHOULD items =====

Generic:
[-]: If the source package does not include license text(s) as a separate
     file from upstream, the packager SHOULD query upstream to include it.
[x]: Final provides and requires are sane (see attachments).
[ ]: Package functions as described.
[x]: Latest version is packaged.
[x]: Package does not include license text files separate from upstream.
[-]: Sources are verified with gpgverify first in %prep if upstream
     publishes signatures.
     Note: gpgverify is not used.
[x]: Package should compile and build into binary rpms on all supported
     architectures.
[ ]: %check is present and all tests pass.
[x]: Packages should try to preserve timestamps of original installed
     files.
[x]: Reviewer should test that the package builds in mock.
[x]: Buildroot is not present
[x]: Package has no %clean section with rm -rf %{buildroot} (or
     $RPM_BUILD_ROOT)
[x]: No file requires outside of /etc, /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin.
[x]: Packager, Vendor, PreReq, Copyright tags should not be in spec file
[x]: Sources can be downloaded from URI in Source: tag
[x]: SourceX is a working URL.
[x]: Spec use %global instead of %define unless justified.

===== EXTRA items =====

Generic:
[x]: Rpmlint is run on all installed packages.
     Note: There are rpmlint messages (see attachment).
[x]: Spec file according to URL is the same as in SRPM.


Rpmlint
-------
Checking: sassist-0.8.9-1.fc45.noarch.rpm
          sassist-0.8.9-1.fc45.src.rpm
============================ rpmlint session starts ============================
rpmlint: 2.8.0
configuration:
    /usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/rpmlint/configdefaults.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
rpmlintrc: [PosixPath('/tmp/tmpyrquvld8')]
checks: 32, packages: 2

sassist.noarch: W: no-documentation
sassist.spec: W: no-%check-section
 2 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 2 warnings, 7 filtered, 0 badness; has taken 3.6 s 




Rpmlint (installed packages)
----------------------------
/bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
/bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
/bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
============================ rpmlint session starts ============================
rpmlint: 2.9.0
configuration:
    /usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/rpmlint/configdefaults.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: 32, packages: 1

sassist.noarch: W: no-documentation
 1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 1 warnings, 3 filtered, 0 badness; has taken 0.2 s 



Source checksums
----------------
https://github.com/dell/sassist/archive/0.8.9/sassist-0.8.9.tar.gz :
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) this package     : 5acd7b3a491db4a08a62e2368b0c8d6779e847fac6ad8fd1935fa3dc785cf0e5
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) upstream package : 5acd7b3a491db4a08a62e2368b0c8d6779e847fac6ad8fd1935fa3dc785cf0e5


Requires
--------
sassist (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    /bin/sh
    /usr/bin/sh
    freeipmi
    sos
    systemd
    zip



Provides
--------
sassist:
    sassist



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Comments:
a) Sorry for the delay,

b) Koji build:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=147567083

c) Is it possible to use %autochangelog and %autorelease macros?

d) The changelog entries should refer to packaging changes for Fedora,
if packaging a new release, just indicate a new release, not the
features changed in the release.

e) It otherwise seems ok. Approved. Consider fixing (c) before import.


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