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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HiugT-00080S-5a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 15:54:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l41FqQle011822; Tue, 1 May 2007 15:52:26 GMT Received: from spunkymail-a4.g.dreamhost.com (sd-green-bigip-74.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.74]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l41FoHMV009315 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 15:50:17 GMT Received: from [192.168.2.124] (c-67-180-39-52.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.39.52]) by spunkymail-a4.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8225131A2F for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 08:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <463761B9.9010000@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 08:50:17 -0700 From: Alec Warner Organization: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070411) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tests References: <200705011508.57220.peper@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200705011508.57220.peper@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l41FqQnb011822 X-Archives-Salt: c4aae52c-983e-4838-a19a-64499f0139d2 X-Archives-Hash: 8fbe83f1128ea8ffc87076de47db9528 Piotr Jaroszy=C5=84ski wrote: > Hello, >=20 > There was some discussion about forcing/not forcing tests in EAPI-1, bu= t there=20 > was clearly no compromise. Imho, tests are very important and thus I wa= nt to=20 > discuss them a little more, but in more sensible fashion. >=20 > 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 test= s > 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 ;) --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list