On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Alexander Todorov <atodorov(a)redhat.com> wrote:
На 26.02.2014 15:56, David Howells написа:
> Alexander Todorov <atodorov(a)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