On 2013-10-22, Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? > Do you say to create a dummy package in Fedora? Package which itself has dummy (possibly) unsatisfied dependencies? Package that ends up in Fedora repositories? That's fishy. -- Petr -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
