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Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> There was some discussion about forcing/not forcing tests in EAPI-1, but there |
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> was clearly no compromise. Imho, tests are very important and thus I want to |
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> discuss them a little more, but in more sensible fashion. |
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> Firstly each test can be(not all categories are mutually exclusive): |
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> - not existant |
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> - non-functional |
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> - not runnable from ebuild |
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> - useful but unreasonable resource-wise |
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> - useful and reasonable resource-wise |
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> - necessary |
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> - known to partially fail but with a way of skipping failing tests |
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> - known to partially fail but with no easy way of skipping failing tests |
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> Is that list comprehensive? |
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There are some tests that require root, and thus only fails with |
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userpriv. Kernel modules that attempt to load themselves to make sure |
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there are no problems are an example. I forget the exact package offhand. |
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Otherwise I like where this discussion is going ;) |
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