On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One of the things that I'd like to get working sometime is a proper
> post-build test harness for rpm's. At the moment, what we do is quite basic,
> along with rpmdiff and some comparison tools we do a string of bash-written
> script tests. There must be another way of doing this, a sort of rpm::unit,
> for the lack of a better name, but modelled on Rspec. To illustrate :
>
> For Pkg in PackageList: {
> ensure Pkg.SIGGPG => present;
> };
>
> Makes sure that Packages we are testing are signed, I guess it could also be
> ensure=> 'blahblah'; to make sure its signed with a specific key.
>
> A more complex test might be to make sure that content in multilib pkgs match
> for overlapping content + multilib acceptable content.
>
> An even more complex test might be to make sure any rpm that drops an init
> script also has a chkconfig stanza in the %post / %pre ( as an example ).
>
> The first step would, of course, be to look at doing this per package, and
> then growing it to work with multiple packages ( eg. doing things like :
>
> TestPackage: { ensure latest in ->
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/updates/i386/ } ; to make sure that this new
> package does indeed provide an higher EVR than whatever is in the repo at the
> end of that url.
>
> And having this harness pass or fail depending on the test outcome.
>
> Perhaps this is not the right list, but most of the people who would end up
> using this or having to live with me forcing them to use it are on this
> list... so I thought this would be a good place to start.
>
> Comments ? Am I wasting my time ?
>
I'm working on a tool for doing some of these same things for fedora right
now.
Here's the list of things we wanted to check in fedora for a tree of pkgs:
#~ Checks:
#~ Package/repo checks:
#~ metadata matches
#~ comps correct
#~ file conflicts
#~ normal conflicts
#~ obsoleted pkgs in tree
#~ circular obsoletes
#~ self obsoleting pkgs
#~ unresolveable provides
#~ Tree/Distro
#~ verify all files in .treeinfo exist/match
#~ check for sha1sums if it finds .iso files
#~ Notifications:
#~ Package:
#~ report all triggers
#~ look for all postrans/pretrans things
#~ self-provided filedeps
#~ self-provided normal deps
#~ soname provides conflicts
#~ in general list out all multiple providers
I'm doing the work in the 'verifytree' tool in yum-utils.
will definitely work on centos 5.3 :)
-sv