[gentoo-dev] Re: Tinderboxing (was Re: package graveyard)

[Diego Elio Pettenò]

Il giorno gio, 18/08/2011 alle 12.01 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò ha
scritto:
>
> Thank you all,

Oh and please remember that if your package is not a kernel module, your
CONFIG_CHECK variable should have ~-tests (i.e., notify if not
configured properly but do not die in the ebuild if so).

It is epically bothersome to change a fake kernel configuration just
because a package _needs it to run_.

Dying/failing tests if the features are not available might make a bit
more sense, but even that is borderline, given that in a container
(which is what _I_ use for tinderboxing) the kernel configuration does
not correspond at all with the one the host is running, and that's the
one that is meaningful.

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