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[Jeff Johnson <n3npq@xxxxxxx>]

The rpmbuild state machine is a linear sequence of
steps leading to a "reproducible build" which
ends up producing *.rpm packages.

The %check stage was added after %prep/%build/%check/%clean
and was not wired into the rpmbuild options largely because
that might have caused incompatibilities.

Its still not clear whether adding %check like %prep/%build/%install
is more gain than pain.

No matter what: %check most definitely should be run by
    rpmbuild -bi --short-circuit

What is typically done to disable %check is to overload
the section marker as a macro to do an exit 0. E.g. in
some macro file that is loaded:

    %check %%check \
     exit 0

or (from the CLI) adding
    --define 'check exit 0'
    

** Tags added: mandriva rpmbuild

** Changed in: rpm
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: rpm
   Importance: Undecided => Low

-- 
rpm -bi --short-circuit also does check
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/634104
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