From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L2w0E-0001na-9W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:58:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C889FE0249; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:58:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0564E0249 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:58:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97732645FA for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:58:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.371 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.371 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.228, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vDyq21tQu9Z5 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:58:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE25964604 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:58:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L2vzz-00061l-8D for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:58:15 +0000 Received: from s0106001f3b27dbf9.mj.shawcable.net ([70.64.208.8]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:58:15 +0000 Received: from dirtyepic by s0106001f3b27dbf9.mj.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:58:15 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Ryan Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember: workarounds don't warrant RESO FIXED! Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:58:14 -0600 Message-ID: <20081119165814.76c985a2@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca> References: <20081116153318.2090b45f@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca> <1226911945.29440.25.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/aocA1gUgJT8yjAOX8rfLXJl"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s0106001f3b27dbf9.mj.shawcable.net X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.6.1 (GTK+ 2.14.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 4803cb40-a273-4759-8089-371bf7c9aa50 X-Archives-Hash: e8ef200b7f70a38b69446723acf4b867 --Sig_/aocA1gUgJT8yjAOX8rfLXJl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:52:25 +0300 Peter Volkov wrote: > =D0=92 =D0=92=D1=81=D0=BA, 16/11/2008 =D0=B2 15:33 -0600, Ryan Hill =D0= =BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: > > ******************************** > > > - FEATURES=3Dtest failures; > > ******************************** >=20 > And what we are supposed to do if upstream states that tests are not > supposed to be ran on users systems and exists for package development > only? For example one upstream states that the purpose of tests is to > test integrity of the program itself and not program's environment and > he (upstream) is pretty sure that program works as designed... I think in this case RESTRICTing the tests or running them but not die-ing on fail would be fine. > Also relevant question: some tests require root privileges. What we > should do in such case? When I asked this previously I was told to check the current user's permissions before running them. I haven't had a case where I've had to though. --=20 gcc-porting, by design, by neglect treecleaner, for a fact or just for effect wxwidgets @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 --Sig_/aocA1gUgJT8yjAOX8rfLXJl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkkmgYACgkQiqiDRvmkBmJ8bACg6XFtMFH6ZIxyPZ+Bl+gBEikb slQAoNVniopyZ31UIEydGPa9F28zAX1E =D9pd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/aocA1gUgJT8yjAOX8rfLXJl--