Re: [gentoo-project] use FEATURES=test at the tinderbox

[William Hubbs]

On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 07:35:57PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> On nie, 2017-07-02 at 17:22 +0200, Toralf Förster wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > after a talk at IRC I started to broaden the scope of the tinderbox [1]
> > by adding FEATURES=test .
> >
> > A lot of findings did appear immediately.
> >
> > That's why now only the packages defined in [2]  (requested at IRC by
> > gentoo devs) will have that feature aktivated.
> >
> > Over the time I do plan to add more categories - will see, how it is
> > going on.
> >
> > If you like seeing your package categories in [2] - just drop me a
> > message in IRC.
> >
> > And ofc "notest" is a valid decision too - just ping me for that too.
> >
> >
> >
> > [1] https://zwiebeltoralf.de/tinderbox.html
> >
> > [2] https://github.com/toralf/tinderbox/blob/master/data/package.env.common
> >
>
> All packages are required to pass tests, or disable them. Having
> a package with a lot of failing tests just because the developer is too
> lazy to even look at them is not good for anyone.

I wouldn't have said it like this, but I tend to agree. you should have
FEATURES=test turned on and if tests are failing it should be up to the
maintainers to either fix or disable them.

They can be disabled by adding RESTRICT="test" in the ebuilds.

Thanks,

William