> - how can we stop separate-debug-info destroying the test-suite RPM's > contents > > For instance, frysk's test-suite includes sys-rooted source and > separate-debug-info tests; unfortunatly the RPM packaging process > corrupts these by trying to make sys-rooted source and > separate-debug-info rpms out of them ... :-) We'd like to avoid this > :-), in effect, have a way to prevent all such post "make install" > manipulation on certain files. That is actually not very easy at all. All those things are in several scripts and they all pretty much do a "find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT" of some sort. We can figure out arcane ways to dodge each one, but I think it will wind up very fragile. I think the only way to win is not to play the game. Alternative approaches that come to mind: 1. Put all the test data files into their own rpm, built from their own src.rpm separate from any installed programs of any kind. It's not so hard to completely disable all post-processing for the whole .spec, e.g.: %define __spec_install_post %{nil} The rpm containing the test suite can Require: the test-data rpm. 2. Fake out rpm by unpacking in %post and using %ghost. That is, include in the rpm a /usr/lib/frysk/test-data.tar.bz2 file. Use e.g.: tar cf - files... | bzip2 -9 > test-data.tar.bz2 tar tjf test-data.tar.bz2 | sed 's/^/%ghost /' > datalist %files -f datalist /usr/lib/frysk/test-data.tar.bz2 /usr/lib/frysk/test-data %post tar -jf /usr/lib/frysk/test-data.tar.bz2 -x -C /usr/lib/frysk/test-data 3. Avoid the problem entirely. Just include test-data.tar.bz2 in the rpm. Make the test procedure (top driving shell script or whatever) do: mkdir temp-place-for-test-run tar -C temp-place-for-test-run -xf /usr/lib/frysk/test-data.tar.bz2 run-tests --sysroot=temp-place-for-test-run rm -rf temp-place-for-test-run I would tend towards #3 I think. Thanks, Roland -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list