Optional packages for the build-time testsuite runs?
Michael E Brown
Michael_E_Brown at dell.com
Mon Nov 19 17:09:48 UTC 2007
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:42:04PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 14:24 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > GDB package has its own large testsuite which is being run automatically from
> > .spec %check during the build to easily find any possible regressions.
> >
> > This testsuite automatically detects existence of some other packages
> > (gcc-gfortran gcc-java gcc-objc gcc-gnat) to run its optional parts to test
> > these specific langauges GDB support.
> >
> > These exotic languages/rpms (gcc-gfortran gcc-java gcc-objc gcc-gnat) may not
> > be commonly installed on the target systems where one may just want to
> > `rpmbuild --rebuild' the .src.rpm for various reasons (such as using newer GDB
> > in an older Fedora system).
> >
> > Listing gcc-gfortran/gcc-java/gcc-objc/gcc-gnat into BuildRequires (now since
> > gdb-6.7.1-4.fc9) just for the testsuite purposes brings:
> > pro) It enables the testsuite to run in Koji/mock.
> > con) It creates a burden for the users just rebuilding the rpm on their Fedora.
> >
> > Isn't there a way to do some?
> > %if %{mock}
> > BuildRequires: gcc-gfortran gcc-java gcc-objc gcc-gnat
> > %endif
> > Tried
> > %if 0%{?dist:1}
> > but %dist is defined even for simple --rebuild by the redhat-rpm-config rpm.
> What I have done in similar situations [1] is applying rpm's
> --with/--without in combination with koji scratch builds and local
> builds.
>
> I.e. I am using %{?_with_XXX} and friends inside of specs, such that you
> can specify them on rpmbuild's command-line for manual local builds.
>
> For chrooted "non-production/test-builds" (e.g. koji scratch-builts) I
> edit the spec (adding %define _with_XXX <something> to the top of the
> spec).
>
> A better approach probably would be to have way to pass
> rpmbuild-parameters to koji/mock for scratch builds.
Another idea that came up on #fedora-devel:
Have a 'is_production' variable at the top of the spec which defaults to
'on', and let people do --without-production, or some such.
--
Michael
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