Running rpmlint within mock

Christian.Iseli at licr.org Christian.Iseli at licr.org
Fri Jul 14 20:16:56 UTC 2006


williams at redhat.com said:
> Getting the rpmlint output is easy enough. Doing anything more than that
> sounds like something out of the scope of mock.

Agreed.

> Ah, we're talking automated test suite here.

Yup.

> That's not mock.

Ok.

> I applaud your desire to automate this stuff, but I don't think that mock is
> the right place for it. Mock is strictly a tool for managing a chroot and
> building SRPMs in those chroots.  Anything else just introduces the potential
> for breaking builds and then Jeremy and Dan start sending me nasty emails :).

:)

> That being said, I think it would be fairly straightforward to run rpmlint on
> the generated RPMs and on the SRPM and stash the output somewhere that's
> easily accessible.

Yes, that'd be neat.

> At that point you're talking about writing an analysis
> tool to classify the output of a mock build. 

Yes.  I'd like to add that to plague, or as a standalone thing that is called 
by plague after mock succeeds.

					Christian





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