On 2013-10-23, Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > Well, but the purpose is to test the output of rpmbuild. If I had to prebuild tested data manually or out of koji, it would not serve the purpose. However I know, this is the last option. I've already redesigned the tests to be runnable from %check phase as well as on demand after installing them into system. -- Petr -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
