[gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal for changes for the next EAPI version

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Ciaran McCreesh posted on Tue, 17 May 2016 12:29:36 +0100 as excerpted:

> On Tue, 17 May 2016 07:26:03 -0400 Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
>> We already have "emerge --config" which is expected to be run after the
>> install process has completed, so I don't think that this is too much
>> of a stretch. Maybe call the phase "pkg_test" analogous to "pkg_config"
>> and in contrast to "src_test" which runs within the working directory.
>> Then "emerge --test" could run it.
> 
> For various technical reasons to do with the spec and package manglers
> sometimes using phase function names with the src_ or pkg_ stripped off,
> calling it that would be a huge pain.

What about something like gentoo_test, or more generically, distro_test?

That would also emphasize the difference between distro-level 
functionality and integration testing (which if I'm reading correctly is 
the proposal here) and upstream-level testing, via src_test.

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