Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: Gentoo Developers <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] new global use-flag proposal
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 16:42:35
Message-Id: 20040601161629.GA20545@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] new global use-flag proposal by "Konstantin V. Arkhipov"
1 On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 04:47:17PM +0400, Konstantin V. Arkhipov wrote:
2 > Greetings, Gentoo,
3 >
4 > There are many packages, which comes with their own tests - openssl,
5 > php, perl, many java-programs (junit-tests) etc.
6 >
7 > So, I think - when someone sets up new production (or even
8 > mission-critical) server, it's a good practice to perform all those
9 > tests during emerge just for sure that everything ok, even with
10 > possibility of emerge failure, if tests fail.
11 I put in a 'make tests' for OpenLDAP a few weeks ago, as a way of trying
12 reduce the problems that are later reported with it. It hasn't all been
13 smooth sailing because of a few bugs this has caused (some people have a
14 tcpwrappers rule that blocks slapd on localhost, which causes the tests
15 to fail).
16
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