Is rpmbuild reentrant?

[Neil Horman]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 04:58:34AM +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
> On 2013-10-22, Neil Horman <nhorman at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 03:03:44PM +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
> >> Is it healty to execute rpmbuild while building a package?
> >> 
> >> I have tests for perl dependencency generator filters. I.e. the tests
> >> build a package using rpmbuild with redefeined all the `_*dir' macros,
> >> then use librpm to query requires and provides from built package, and
> >> then do checks on the values.
> >> 
> >> I'm thinking how to plug the tests into Fedora. The simplest solution is
> >> to run the tests in %check phase of a package (I don't know which one,
> >> but it does not matter which one).
> >> 
> >> I've already heard warnings that calling rpm from package scriptlets is
> >> not recommend.
> >> 
> >> What the situation with rpmbuild?
> >> 
> > I'm not sure how re-entrant-safe rpmbuild is, but doing the above seems a bit
> > dodgy in general.  Could you instead package the test separately from the
> > dependency generator rpm, make the latter depedent on the former, and then use
> > chain-build in koji to build them at the same time?
> >
> Do you say to create a dummy package in Fedora? Package which itself has
> dummy (possibly) unsatisfied dependencies? Package that ends up in
> Fedora repositories? That's fishy.
> 
Um, no.  All I was suggesting was that you build the package tests separately
from the package itself, as its own rpm.
Neil

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