--On Saturday, March 19, 2005 12:53 AM +0200 VilleSkyttä <ville.skytta@xxxxxx> wrote:
In rpm 4.2, that is. Anyway, it has been described in the max-rpm CVS snapshot for some time: http://rpm-devel.colug.net/max-rpm/s1-rpm-specref-scripts.html#S3-RPM-SPE CREF-CHECK
CPAN modules often have a "make test" phase, so that looks like a good enhancement to implement in the RPM::Specfile package.
There was a long thread not long ago on the Subversion mailing list about whether end users should run tests when installing from a source RPM (consensus was "yes") so that SRPM could also benefit. (Its tests take quite awhile.)
Quite often software, especially many perl modules, require network tests during "make test". We may need to make a policy for Fedora that such tests *must* be in a %check section, because we may want the the build system to totally disallow network access for security reasons.
Warren Togami wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx
