[Rpm-ecosystem] [Fedora-packaging] Let's standardize the way to disable tests during RPM build?

[Igor Raits]

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On Fri, 2020-06-05 at 16:10 +0200, Tomas Orsava wrote:
> Hi,
> I think it would be useful to have a standard way of disabling the 
> running of tests during RPM build (in the %check section of a spec
> file).
> 
> I see a lot of packages already having %bcond's or other macro 
> definitions to archieve this, but each package has their own way, 
> there's no real standard. Thus you have to first look into the spec, 
> locate the appropriate %bcond or macro name and only then you can 
> disable the tests.
> 
> I would like to propose two approaches:
> 
> (a) Add a *SHOULD* rule to the guidelines that specifies what is the 
> preferred way to conditionalize the tests.
> 
> (b) Or, if that's too strong, mention in the guidelines the common 
> methods that are being used (e.g. %bcond tests and %bcond check) so
> that 
> new packagers have something to use.
> 
> What do you think?

I'd like to have this finally be implemented in
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/316. That way it
would be simply rpmbuild --nocheck or define %_without_check 1 which
would skip %check section entirely.

For now, all Rust crates just have `%bcond_without check` so using `--
without check` works just fine there.

Since this would be more generic thing to the RPM ecosystem, adding
rpm-ecosystem@ to the copy.

> Tomas
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