On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 03:03:44PM +0000, Petr Pisar wrote: > Is it healty to execute rpmbuild while building a package? > > I have tests for perl dependencency generator filters. I.e. the tests > build a package using rpmbuild with redefeined all the `_*dir' macros, > then use librpm to query requires and provides from built package, and > then do checks on the values. > > I'm thinking how to plug the tests into Fedora. The simplest solution is > to run the tests in %check phase of a package (I don't know which one, > but it does not matter which one). > > I've already heard warnings that calling rpm from package scriptlets is > not recommend. > > What the situation with rpmbuild? > I'm not sure how re-entrant-safe rpmbuild is, but doing the above seems a bit dodgy in general. Could you instead package the test separately from the dependency generator rpm, make the latter depedent on the former, and then use chain-build in koji to build them at the same time? Neil > -- Petr > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
