Availability of %check (was: Re: Request for review: perl-Number-Compare)

Fri Jul 1 15:20:39 UTC 2005

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 13:56 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:39:22 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > 
> >>If instead you have:
> >>
> >>%install
> >>...
> >>%clean
> >>...
> >>%check || :
> >>...
> >>
> >>then old versions of rpm 
> > 
> > How old?
> 
> rpm 4.0.something I think. Well before the dawn of Fedora.

4.2, which is available in RHL-9 and RHEL-3 and later.
/usr/share/doc/rpm-*/CHANGES, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/64137

(I'll drop the "|| :" from spectemplate-perl.spec in the next
fedora-rpmdevtools revision.)