Packages with missing %check

[Dridi Boukelmoune]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Alexander Todorov <atodorov at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

s/%build/%install/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package#.25check_section

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