From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 02EF3159C9B for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2024 15:43:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D3BA2BC0A7; Fri, 9 Aug 2024 15:43:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1BC8D2BC01E for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2024 15:43:38 +0000 (UTC) From: Sam James To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Arsen =?utf-8?Q?Arsenovi=C4=87?= , python@gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Handling installed tests Organization: Gentoo Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 16:43:33 +0100 Message-ID: <87ttftr9ay.fsf@gentoo.org> 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: eef676d6-584c-45cf-b561-bf9b067e6441 X-Archives-Hash: 5439d5a9650e921491c926e459ef2002 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Hi, I'm currently working on packaging dtrace which doesn't (at least currently, may not ever) support running tests as non-root, but does support handling installing them for later manual use. This raises a question: how should we control installing such tests? How should the user request that? USE=test isn't suitable because: a) I generally expect it not to mutate the image; b) ago, rightly, based on this has a tinderbox check which looks for added/removed files when tests are enabled. I'd like to pick some name which is suitable for us to use elsewhere and it's not really a package-specific issue. Thoughts? Please assume the tests are large enough to justify conditional install and have additional dependencies. (This is arguably related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/867799 and so on wrt dev-lang/python always installing tests.) thanks, sam --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iOUEARYKAI0WIQQlpruI3Zt2TGtVQcJzhAn1IN+RkAUCZrY5JV8UgAAAAAAuAChp c3N1ZXItZnByQG5vdGF0aW9ucy5vcGVucGdwLmZpZnRoaG9yc2VtYW4ubmV0MjVB NkJCODhERDlCNzY0QzZCNTU0MUMyNzM4NDA5RjUyMERGOTE5MA8cc2FtQGdlbnRv by5vcmcACgkQc4QJ9SDfkZDczgD9Ekx1XYYPIjmPVv9fuNZzj7wgSaI53MAFXaVg I01GuG0A/j/SXwGGos75kT/Mw5w8mCQDX31H3y8lOs6ud0G6qlwL =PR5W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--