From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G9Iez-0006RG-Bb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2006 09:41:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k759eiXx010276; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 09:40:45 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k759cpoQ016959 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 09:38:51 GMT Received: from phi.witten.lan (p83.129.1.109.tisdip.tiscali.de [83.129.1.109]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC5A64486 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 09:38:50 +0000 (UTC) From: Danny van Dyk Organization: Gentoo To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 11:49:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <20060805021158.11ca6b15@c1358217.kevquinn.com> <200608050239.16528.kugelfang@gentoo.org> <20060805111910.18ebc530@c1358217.kevquinn.com> In-Reply-To: <20060805111910.18ebc530@c1358217.kevquinn.com> X-Face: =?utf-8?q?57Z3foFdBj=3BKdmU=5EFM=2Eec=5C4=7BQf/F6=25ePh=5C=5DM=5EaXPX*=5D?= =?utf-8?q?J5S=7CM=7E+vR=3F=24iW=5Cn44=5E2sguPTOtw=0A=09fe+7gKTm*!OXGQPYqML?= =?utf-8?q?=7CL1ezSI3-=27E=25zxZigvAK?=>3$?~'4IPBoi\H2)pV6U(26V@ =?utf-8?q?jq=7CAIp=0A=09yY?=>'!D}EOi=Q+-|CIh-d4riWfZZ">G.Rj!}78kX$8Zt0:epNWTo[{_/zJb< =?utf-8?q?Ud=2Eon=7EprEW*=0A=09tIvqI=7B+e=3AgMC?= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608051149.53640.kugelfang@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 4197c678-03c9-48ba-a790-269cf59a569f X-Archives-Hash: 432c6896bb1861ecbbcceeeb2145cb65 Am Samstag, 5. August 2006 11:19 schrieb Kevin F. Quinn: > On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 02:39:16 +0200 > > Danny van Dyk wrote: > > Am Samstag, 5. August 2006 02:11 schrieb Kevin F. Quinn: > > > At the very least, ebuild maintainers and ATs should be running > > > with tests switched on. If the tests are known to fail then the > > > ebuild can either RESTRICT=test, or just return successfully from > > > src_test() where the test report is useful even if some tests > > > fail. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > * autoconf takes ages (longer than compiling glibc here). > > * glibc tests fail on amd64 since at least a year. > > * automake|e2fsprogs|neon|gettext|tar have failed tests for me more > > than once. > > > > As soon as these are fixed, i wouldn't mind making FEATURES="test" > > a default. > > Well, if something fails its tests but you still want it regardless > or you want to skip the test phase for some other reason, you can > always do FEATURES="-test" emerge . > > Changing the default doesn't prevent people from skipping tests, > however in the long term it will reduce the amount of stuff committed > to the tree that doesn't pass tests. It will increase the amount of > times a system or world update falls over, but changing the default > will raise the priority for getting these things fixed. > > There are many packages in the tree for which it is clear the > maintainer did not even attempt to run the tests - e.g. > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139414 To my mind committing > packages without even bothering to try the test phase is inexcusable. Something? Please re-read the list of packages that fail tests: * glibc * autoconf * gettext * tar That makes _4_ system packages. Before I would consider making FEATURES=test a default, I would add least want the system set to actually merge with it. Danny -- Danny van Dyk Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list