Verifying Question...

[Jesse Keating]

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On Sunday 25 January 2004 12:09, David Rees wrote:
> Is there any steps should a person take to verify a binary package
> besides the ones mentioned on
> http://www.fedora.us/wiki/PackageSubmissionQAPolicy?  It seems that
> something more should be done besides download and verify functionality,
> add clear-signed comment to te bug.  Perhaps like checking the size of
> the files or the file list compared to the packages that were QAd, or
> something...
>
> If the two steps above are OK, I'll get to verifying the packages that
> are waiting for verification as it seems very easy to do compared to
> getting a package to the PUBLISH state.

ldd output of the old binary(s) against ldd of the new ones is good.

Also, just using it in production for your every day tasks is the big 
thing.  The majority of the scruitiny goes into the package to get to the 
PUBLISH state.  The VERIFY state is a final passing test before we push it 
fully public.

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