[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Clarify %check script use-case by executing it before %install (#1618)

[torsava]

This will seriously complicate my life as a maintainer. There are many good use cases for doing %check on the content of %install.

Your suggestion is to do a fake install in %build and check that, but that 1. won't test the actually installed stuff, 2. make me copy a possibly lots of code (not all %install sections are just %make_install!!!) and keep it with only slight changes in two places. That will be a spec file from hell.

Please don't do this.

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