F11: things to check in a release tree before a release
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 21:22:35 UTC 2008
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:52:15 -0500 (EST), Seth Vidal wrote:
> Going through a variety of checks for things that could be broken in a
> release tree, I decided to type up a list of the things we should be
> checking for.
>
> • metadata matches
> • comps correct
> • file conflicts
Conflicts between a file and a symlink. Can only be checked with access
to the .rpm package and is not listed in the metadata (afaik).
Optionally: permission/ownership conflicts
> • normal conflicts
> • no obsoleted pkgs in tree
> • report all triggers
> • look for all postrans/pretrans things
> • unresolveable requires
> • self-provided filedeps
> • self-provided normal deps
> • old versions of pkgs left over
• SONAME-provides conflicts
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