Packages with missing %check

[Alexander Todorov]

На 26.02.2014 15:56, David Howells написа:
> Alexander Todorov <atodorov at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> How about making %check a packaging requirement in all cases - run tests or
>> add a comment explaining why not, how to run them (e.g. make test) or why
>> there are no tests for this package.
>
> Does %check install the package and run the tests as root?  For the keyutils
> package that I maintain, this would be a requirement to be able to run the
> testsuite because:
>
>   (1) There are certain operations that cannot be tested if you're not root.
>
>   (2) The kernel must be able to upcall to executables installed by the rpm.
>
> I imagine this applies to some other packages also.
>

I does, but not sure to how many.  %check is executed during rpmbuild time right 
after %build so limitations apply.

--
Alex