On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:14:21 -1000, Warren Togami <wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kenneth Porter wrote: > > --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. > Yes.. this causes all kinds of alarms in certain places when people forget that the perl modules try to do network access tests. -- Stephen J Smoogen. CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
