From: Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tests
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 08:50:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <463761B9.9010000@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705011508.57220.peper@gentoo.org>
Piotr Jaroszyński wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There was some discussion about forcing/not forcing tests in EAPI-1, but there
> was clearly no compromise. Imho, tests are very important and thus I want to
> discuss them a little more, but in more sensible fashion.
>
> Firstly each test can be(not all categories are mutually exclusive):
> - not existant
> - non-functional
> - not runnable from ebuild
> - useful but unreasonable resource-wise
> - useful and reasonable resource-wise
> - necessary
> - known to partially fail but with a way of skipping failing tests
> - known to partially fail but with no easy way of skipping failing tests
> Is that list comprehensive?
There are some tests that require root, and thus only fails with
userpriv. Kernel modules that attempt to load themselves to make sure
there are no problems are an example. I forget the exact package offhand.
Otherwise I like where this discussion is going ;)
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-01 13:08 [gentoo-dev] tests Piotr Jaroszyński
2007-05-01 13:24 ` Josh Sled
2007-05-01 13:32 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-01 15:50 ` Alec Warner [this message]
2007-05-01 16:04 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2007-05-01 16:23 ` Vlastimil Babka
2007-05-01 17:18 ` Maurice van der Pot
2007-05-01 17:35 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-01 19:53 ` Maurice van der Pot
2007-05-01 20:05 ` Piotr Jaroszyński
2007-05-02 5:58 ` Rémi Cardona
2007-05-02 6:53 ` Danny van Dyk
2007-05-01 21:52 ` Josh Saddler
2007-05-01 22:31 ` Stephen Bennett
2007-05-01 22:28 ` Josh Saddler
2007-05-01 22:47 ` Piotr Jaroszyński
2007-05-01 23:08 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-01 23:06 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-01 17:58 ` Piotr Jaroszyński
2007-05-01 19:24 ` Rémi Cardona
2007-05-01 20:10 ` Jure Varlec
2007-05-01 22:06 ` Robin H. Johnson
2007-05-01 20:25 ` [gentoo-dev] tests Piotr Jaroszyński
2007-05-01 23:32 ` [gentoo-dev] tests Marius Mauch
2007-05-01 23:46 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2007-05-01 23:55 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-02 0:34 ` Brian Harring
2007-05-02 11:52 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-02 0:08 ` Robin H. Johnson
2007-05-02 0:12 ` Stephen Bennett
2007-05-02 1:51 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2007-05-02 6:49 ` Danny van Dyk
2007-05-02 11:56 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-01 23:56 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-02 10:54 ` Philipp Riegger
2007-05-02 20:05 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-05-02 20:12 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-06 8:39 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-05-05 21:17 ` [gentoo-dev] tests Ryan Hill
2007-05-06 4:27 ` Alistair John Bush
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