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 1G9Roi-000269-DM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:28:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k75JRPOE008727; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 19:27:25 GMT Received: from mail-relay-3.tiscali.it (mail-relay-3.tiscali.it [213.205.33.43]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k75JPYvJ027554 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 19:25:34 GMT Received: from c1358217.kevquinn.com (84.222.84.87) by mail-relay-3.tiscali.it (7.3.110.2) id 44D225570002C43C for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 21:25:34 +0200 Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 21:25:13 +0200 From: "Kevin F. Quinn" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default Message-ID: <20060805212513.1e3e8a4e@c1358217.kevquinn.com> In-Reply-To: <200608051435.49746.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <20060805021158.11ca6b15@c1358217.kevquinn.com> <200608051149.53640.kugelfang@gentoo.org> <20060805125746.5aae6cd7@c1358217.kevquinn.com> <200608051435.49746.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.0 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_ZX3uXe2u.9_O8WL0GS1Zi1+; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 47cc2bf4-6202-4de7-93ac-037e3c44dae7 X-Archives-Hash: 2d94cbca759c9839b649fcab31442177 --Sig_ZX3uXe2u.9_O8WL0GS1Zi1+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 14:35:49 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 05 August 2006 06:57, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 11:49:53 +0200 > > Danny van Dyk wrote: > > > 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=3Dtest a default, I would add least want the system set to > > > actually merge with it. > > > > So you're happy to let users install these packages without them > > knowing the tests would fail? >=20 > before i added binutils-2.17, i ran `make check` on it for about 25=20 > targets ... of those, about 10 failed ... >=20 > i checked with upstream and others reproduced it ... i dont know > about you, but i dont have the skills to go in and fix the failures > for all of those architectures Agreed, however you could rig src_test() to either skip the tests on those arches, or run them without die()ing and ewarn about the known failures on those arches, or just leave them in ~arch (or even masked) for the arches where they fail, depending on the impact of the failures. That sort of thing is well within our role of package management. > while i like the idea of all packages being able to pass > FEATURES=3Dtest, somethings it just aint gonna happen with Gentoo's > available skill set -mike --=20 Kevin F. Quinn --Sig_ZX3uXe2u.9_O8WL0GS1Zi1+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE1PCf9G2S8dekcG0RAsWzAJ9G4sc07TXL5Os7wAU3AXxmPrA+iwCfXNqm Df7+FwNc+JDA9imAFBkQpIE= =BNsY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_ZX3uXe2u.9_O8WL0GS1Zi1+-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list