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Maurice van der Pot wrote: |
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>Hey people, |
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>A lot of ebuilds still fail when "test" is in FEATURES. |
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>It's understandable that fixing this is a low priority thing, but what |
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>I would like to propose is to either fix the tests or disable them. |
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>The latter would be the thing to do for devs who are currently closing |
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>bugs about tests with WONTFIX or similar. |
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>By keeping tests that fail enabled in one ebuild, perfectly good tests |
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>of any other ebuild are rendered useless because it becomes almost |
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>impossible to upgrade a system with "test" in FEATURES. |
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>If fixing the tests is not WONTFIX but rather something way down on your |
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>todo list, I would also recommend disabling the tests in the ebuild. |
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>A bug report could be used to track these bugs, but at least it would |
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>not bother so many people while it is still unsolved. |
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>I'd like to know what you think of this. |
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>Thanks, |
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>Maurice. |
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Hi, |
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Some time ago used 'maketest' (now 'test') in my FEATURES-list, but |
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after some test-failing packages (not many and BUGS filed on them) |
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switched it off, as IMHO fixing 'tests' seems to be a task more up to |
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package-developers (so gentoo-maintainers send it upstream for fixing). |
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Think (tell your experiences here) that the responses may be very |
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different (depending on the people). The package usually works OK, so a |
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test-failing may be due to for example some USE-flags, CFLAGS (using |
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hardened profile in my former case) or other causes (WONTFIX from upstream). |
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If the number of fixed packages is too small or it takes too long to fix |
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it's not very useful feature, i just don't know. |
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Just sharing my experiences here. |
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PS: a day or two ago mentioned that i'm using per-package FEATURES in |
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'/etc/portage/package.features-file' ("-collision-protect") so was |
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thinking about doing the same for "test" (for half a day "test" is ON in |
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my 'make.conf'). Think of putting it OFF for failing packages while |
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still keeping it ON globally. Also will like the get some opinions. |
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Rumen |
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