On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 15:28 -0500, Al Dunsmuir wrote: > > What Bill's talking about when he refers to 'autoqa tests' are generic > > tests which are concerned with package quality, not really the software > > in the package: stuff like do the dependencies work, are there any clear > > errors in the file lists. They can be run on any RPM package, the > > software in the package doesn't really matter. > That makes sense. > > How about things like rpmlint? Perhaps that would have caught the > bind/dnssec problems where user configs were directly rewritten > without backup to rpmnew files. We have a tool called 'rpmguard' which is more or less a cousin of rpmlint that looks at the differences between two versions of a package and flags up critical changes. That's what will be implemented in AutoQA and used at this 'test point'. See https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/wiki/rpmguard . -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
