Re: [gentoo-dev] controlling src_test

["Rémi Cardona" <remi@gentoo.org>]

Ravi Pinjala a écrit :
> I, for one, would like to be able to control whether or not to run tests
> that take a huge amount of time to run. Some test suites are
> ridiculously comprehensive, and if we could have an option to disable
> only those, or even run a reduced test suite, that'd be pretty neat.

We've already had this discussion before [1] and there is no 
one-size-fits-all solution for tagging tests.

Ryan's plan only proposes to enable/disable tests based on whether they 
can run inside a sandbox. That much is doable. Trying to quantify the 
time a test suite will take to complete is impossible : different 
arches, vastly different CPU clock speeds, same for HDDs sizes and 
speeds, ... is impossible.

Basically, it boils down to "if you're running FEATURES=test, you should 
know what you're doing".

+1 on Ryan's idea

Rémi

[1] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_145157.xml
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