Running rpmlint within mock

[Jesse Keating]

On Friday 14 July 2006 18:48, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> The whole point is that mock already has everything necessary and
> pregenerated.  It has the chroot just sitting there.  It has the
> security infrastructure and the procedures for doing things within the
> chroot already done.  It seems to me to be terribly foolish to
> duplicate that.
>
> How about this: does mock provide (or could it provide) a way for me
> to install a couple of packages and run a command within the chroot?
> Or is this relatively simple to do safely without using mock?  Forget
> about rpmlint; maybe I need this for debugging or to figure out why
> something isn't building.

The same software could be used.  Mock can do it, it just isn't designed with 
this task in mind.

More to the point, there are two distinct tasks here, one is building the 
package, the other is testing.  They have some pretty different needs, and 
trying to do both of them in the same harness isn't the best of ideas.  
rpmlint is just a test, it leads to more tests, like I described.  What about 
doing functional tests on things like php packages, where we want to spin up 
a local apache, browse to some pages, and make sure the content looks right.  
These are the types of things that can be done with dogtail in a real test 
environment that really really really shouldn't be done at build time.

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