rpmlint/invalid-filerequires.diff

From: Some One <nobody@opensuse.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 14:55:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] invalid-filerequires.diff

===================================================================
---
 TagsCheck.py | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

Index: rpmlint-rpmlint-1.11/TagsCheck.py
===================================================================
--- rpmlint-rpmlint-1.11.orig/TagsCheck.py
+++ rpmlint-rpmlint-1.11/TagsCheck.py
@@ -456,6 +456,7 @@ invalid_version_regex = re.compile(r'([0
 # () are here for grouping purpose in the regexp
 forbidden_words_regex = re.compile(r'(%s)' % Config.getOption('ForbiddenWords'), re.IGNORECASE)
 valid_buildhost_regex = re.compile(Config.getOption('ValidBuildHost'))
+valid_filedep_regex = re.compile(r'(?:/s?bin/|^/etc/|^/usr/lib/sendmail$)')
 use_epoch = Config.getOption('UseEpoch', False)
 use_utf8 = Config.getOption('UseUTF8', Config.USEUTF8_DEFAULT)
 max_line_len = Config.getOption('MaxLineLength', 79)
@@ -636,6 +637,9 @@ class TagsCheck(AbstractCheck.AbstractCh
             if d[0].startswith('/usr/local/'):
                 printError(pkg, 'invalid-dependency', d[0])
 
+            if d[0].startswith('/') and not valid_filedep_regex.search(d[0]):
+                printWarning(pkg, 'invalid-filepath-dependency', d[0])
+
             if is_source:
                 if lib_devel_number_regex.search(d[0]):
                     printError(pkg, 'invalid-build-requires', d[0])
@@ -1166,6 +1170,12 @@ unneeded explicit Requires: tags.''',
 '''This package provides 2 times the same capacity. It should only provide it
 once.''',
 
+'invalid-filepath-dependency',
+'''A package has a file or path based dependency that is not resolveable for
+package solvers because it is not in the whitelist for path based dependencies
+and therefore not available in repository metadata. Please use a symbolic requires
+instead or require a file in bin or /etc.''',
+
 'tag-not-utf8',
 '''The character encoding of the value of this tag is not UTF-8.''',