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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:39:53 +0200 |
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> Rémi Cardona <remi@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Ciaran McCreesh a écrit : |
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>>> So how are we supposed to handle packages where upstream *require* |
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>>> that anyone building from source runs 'make check'? |
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>> If it's required to get the final binaries, then it should be in |
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>> src_compile. |
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>> I don't know any package that does require such a thing, but IMHO it |
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>> should be a QA warning if a build system writes anything to ${D} |
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>> during src_test. (could sandbox be tweaked to do that?) |
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> A whole bunch of science packages have upstreams that say "If you're |
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> building from source, run 'make check' and if it fails don't carry on". |
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Their rationale behind that is that their code is severely broken, using |
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experimental features from their language of choice or, simply, that |
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they are paranoid and couldn't think better ways to annoy people? |
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> For that matter, I'm strongly inclined to say that for Paludis too... |
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Getting the build time from 30minutes to an hour or more? |
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Luca Barbato |
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