Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remaining PMS todo list etc

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:32:41 -0600
Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > There's an updated, pre-built copy of current PMS at:
> > 
> >     http://dev.gentoo.org/~spb/pms.pdf
> 
> Thanks for keeping up with this.
> 
> > * 174335: Some ebuild use FEATURES. Can we get them to stop doing
> > that, or do we have to force package managers to emulate it?
> 
> We seriously need a PM-independent way of saying "run the testsuite",
> "run the testsuite with user privledges", and "run the testsuite with
> root privledges if you can, otherwise forget it".  Also required is
> the ability to make test failures non-fatal on a per-package basis,
> though this probably has nothing to do with the PMS.

How about just checking EUID == 0 in src_test and skip the tests (with a
ewarn message) if it doesn't match your needs?

Marius

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