Running rpmlint within mock

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Fri Jul 14 20:36:24 UTC 2006


On Friday 14 July 2006 16:11, Christian.Iseli at licr.org wrote:
> AFAIU, rpmlint can catch more/other things when a package is installed.
> So the full thing seems to be:
>  1 rpmlint the src.rpm
>  2 rpmlint the <binary/noarch>.rpm
>  3 install the rpm and then run rpmlint again
>
> Since mock builds a chroot anyway, Jason and I thought it might not cost
> much more just to install the built packages and do an rpmlint then

This sounds like much more of a job of the Fedora Test Project software that 
Will Woods is talking about. Then you could do more tests like testing for 
conflicts, testing for scriptlet errors, testing for upgrade path / removal, 
etc..  A much more appropriate place for it.

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