Re: Fedora testing repository - status of packages

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Adrin Jalali wrote:
> Thanks.
> Another question in my mind is that, how can I test packages? I mean, I 
> know how to test packages such as yum, I can just try use it and update 
> it, and just see whether it works for me or not (having in mind that I 
> would be unable to check the exact bug which is fixed in the release). 
> But for some packages, specially lib* ones, how can they be checked? Is 
> there a place to see the test instructions?

Not really. For libraries, testing it against applications that use the 
library by just using the apps and seeing if anything is broken is what 
we do. repoquery can tell you which apps depend on which libs.

Rahul