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Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> said: |
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> On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:11:45 +0200 |
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> "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote: |
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> > What do you think about doing the following change in |
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> > /usr/portage/profiles/targets/developer/make.defaults: |
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> > replace "test" with "test-fail-continue" to make it just less |
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> > frustrating (we still have a lot of test failures) |
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> > Hopefully that will also make more of us use the developer profile, |
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> > and detect test failures. |
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> > |
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> > What do you think? |
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> I would say it's an improvement only because it might prevent one or |
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> two people from completely disabling it first chance they get. :) |
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> IMO, test failures should be given the same status as build failures. |
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> Packages shouldn't be commited until they're fixed or bypassed. |
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> Following that reasoning, FEATURES="test" is the correct setting for |
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> the dev profile. It _should_ be annoying when you hit it, that's the |
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> point. Fix it! What's the point of even having a test suite if it |
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> always fails? You'd be better off to RESTRICT it and save yourself |
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> some bug reports from me and all the other users you're foisting build |
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> errors on. |
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> But in the real world it seems it's just never going to happen. I've |
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> been arguing this for years but people simply don't care. It doesn't |
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> help that we don't have any finer control than "on" or "off". I'd |
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> like to be able to say things like "these tests should only be run by |
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> developers" or "some failures are normal" or "hope you have 10 hours |
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> to run this" or "don't run these as root" or "don't run tests on arm" |
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> etc etc. I'd like a pony while I'm at it. |
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> Sorry about the rant. This is one of my biggest long-standing |
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> annoyances. |
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> Um, so yeah. For it! |
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as it seems, there is disagreement about the issue among developers. |
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Perhaps the council would like to settle this, so that we can go on with |
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our lives. |
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i do agree, that all packages should build successfully including the test |
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phase. RESTRICTing the test and an open bug when this is not the case. |
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thanks |
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Thilo |
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