rpmqc

The RPM packages quality control tool.

Ideologically, rpmqc is similar to rpmlint, but they solve slightly different tasks: rpmlint is an awesome tool for checking an RPM package for common errors (a packager's tool), while rpmqc is designed to quickly check an entire repository/compose for typical release manager's errors like missing signatures or wrong branding.

Install

All requirements are available from Fedora or EL 8/9 + EPEL repositories:

# EL 9 derivatives
$ sudo dnf install -y --enablerepo=epel python3-createrepo_c \
      python3-cryptography python3-rpm python3-schema python3-pyyaml \
      python3-virtualenv

Currently, there is no RPM package available, so the recommended way is to install rpmqc from PyPI using a virtual environment:

$ mkdir rpmqc
$ cd rpmqc
$ virtualenv --system-site-packages .venv
$ . .venv/bin/activate
$ pip install rpmqc

$ rpmqc --version
rpmqc 0.0.4

optionally, you can create an rpmqc alias in your ~/.bashrc:

# don't forget to adjust the path accordingly to your configuration
alias rpmqc="rpmqc/.venv/bin/rpmqc"

Configuration

The program expects a configuration file in YAML format:

---
package:
  signatures:
    # expected RPM package signature PGP key id
    pgp_key_id: 8BDA73A4
    # IMA signature public certificate path
    ima_cert_path: ~/.vault/ima-sign.x509
  tags:
    # expected RPM tag values, regular expressions are also supported
    buildhost: !regex ^builder-(x86|arm64)-\d+\.msvsphere-os\.ru$
    packager: MSVSphere
    vendor: MSVSphere
...

all inspections are optional and will be performed if a corresponding configuration file option is set.

Usage

Currently, rpmqc supports only two modes: single (or multiple) RPM packages checking (inspect-rpm) and an entire repository checking (inspect-repo). For usage instructions see rpmqc inspect-rpm --help and rpmqc inspect-repo --help, respectively.

License

rpmqc is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2.0, or (at your option) any later version of the license.

References

• The Test Anything Protocol v14 specification
• The RPM Package Manager
• IMA Wiki
• rpmlint - a tool for checking common errors in RPM packages.
• rpminspect - an RPM build deviation analysis tool.