On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 04:58:34AM +0000, Petr Pisar wrote: > 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. > Um, no. All I was suggesting was that you build the package tests separately from the package itself, as its own rpm. 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
