Regression testing

[Warren Togami]

Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Saturday, March 19, 2005 12:53 AM +0200 VilleSkyttä 
> <ville.skytta at iki.fi> 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 at redhat.com