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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remaining PMS todo list etc
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:53:15
Message-Id: 20080320044503.3c29a663@sheridan.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remaining PMS todo list etc by Ryan Hill
1 On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:32:41 -0600
2 Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > > There's an updated, pre-built copy of current PMS at:
6 > >
7 > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spb/pms.pdf
8 >
9 > Thanks for keeping up with this.
10 >
11 > > * 174335: Some ebuild use FEATURES. Can we get them to stop doing
12 > > that, or do we have to force package managers to emulate it?
13 >
14 > We seriously need a PM-independent way of saying "run the testsuite",
15 > "run the testsuite with user privledges", and "run the testsuite with
16 > root privledges if you can, otherwise forget it". Also required is
17 > the ability to make test failures non-fatal on a per-package basis,
18 > though this probably has nothing to do with the PMS.
19
20 How about just checking EUID == 0 in src_test and skip the tests (with a
21 ewarn message) if it doesn't match your needs?
22
23 Marius
24
25 --
26 Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub
27
28 In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be
29 Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.

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