Request for review: perl-Number-Compare
Michael Schwendt
bugs.michael at gmx.net
Fri Jul 1 12:51:38 UTC 2005
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:39:22 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:32:00 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >
> >
> >>- I'd put %check after %install rather than after %clean, so that builds
> >>on rpm versions not supporting %check could still work.
> >
> >
> > Does order of spec sections matter? (I don't think so)
>
> Current rpm versions run the %check scriptlet after %install, if %check
> is present.
Regardless of where I put %check inside the spec? I can move the %files
section at the top of the spec. Could I do the same with %check or
%clean? ;)
> Older rpm versions don't understand %check, and will barf when they come
> across it.
That was not the questions.
> If instead you have:
>
> %install
> ...
> %clean
> ...
> %check || :
> ...
>
> then old versions of rpm
How old?
> will run the %check scriptlet at the end of the
> %clean scriptlet, i.e. just after everything has been deleted. Not a
> good idea.
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