Running rpmlint within mock

[Clark Williams]

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Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> Christian Iseli and I were discussing the possibility of automatically
> running rpmlint somehow.  It seems that the end of the mock build
> process is the ideal place for this.  It has a chroot already set up
> with the package's build requirements already installed.  (Obviously
> this doesn't include the runtime requirements, but generally there's
> quite some overlap.)  It also has easy access to the freshly built
> binary and source RPMs.
>
> How difficult would it be to, at the end of the build process, install
> the freshly built package, install rpmlint, and run rpmlint on the
> source and any binary RPMs that were built?

Sounds like a good idea.

Why do we need to install the just-generated binary RPMs in the
chroot? Can't we get the same info by just running rpmlint against the
binary and source RPMs?

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