Re: Request for review: perl-Number-Compare

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 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? ;)

Try rearranging them and see.

> > 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?

rpm 4.0.something I think. Well before the dawn of Fedora. So for a spec 
file tailored for Extras, none of this matters. However, it's perfectly 
possible to write spec files that will build just fine on really old Red 
Hat Linuxes, and still meet Extras packaging guidelines. Obviously most 
people won't want to bother with that, and that's OK, but if they're not 
bothered about backwards compatibility, there's no need for the "|| :" 
after %check - and that's all my original comment was about in the review.

Paul.