Regression testing

[Ville Skyttä]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 23:47 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> shiva at sewingwitch.com (Kenneth Porter) writes:
> 
> >> Please use %check for such tests. This makes it easy, to bypass them
> >> with '--define check\ exit\ 0'; %build or %install would require manual
> >> editing of the .spec-file
> >
> > What is %check? A standard macro? A standard build stage?
> 
> A build stage which will be executed after %install.
> 
> 
> > Or something new? (I don't recall seeing it mentioned in Maximum RPM.)
> 
> It exists for a while already but was added after Maximum RPM.

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-SPECREF-CHECK