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Hello, all. |
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Short summary: PMS Test Suite is a suite of tools and a test library |
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to test any of the Gentoo Package Managers for compliance against |
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the Package Manager Specification. |
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The project is a little ahead of schedule. |
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This week brought: |
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a) structural changes: |
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- merge of the test library and eclasses into main codebase, reducing |
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the project to a single repository, |
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- an ability to generate the test repository from scratch (not only |
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ebuilds but eclasses, repo_name and categories file too), |
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- merge of CLI handling code into a single executable, |
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- clone of the main code repository to github [1] for nice network |
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graphs [2], |
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- move of D-Bus related out of main eclass; |
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b) CLI changes: |
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- support for `--pm-options' switch, to specify additional options |
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passed to the Package Manager (like `--jobs' or so), |
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- as `pms-tester' script creates the repo itself, an arbitrary path may |
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be passed as `--repository-path'; |
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c) technical changes: |
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- support for checking whether a package is installed. This data is |
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used by simple tests to determine whether a particular test failed or |
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succeeded, |
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- any already-merged tests are unmerged before starting to perform |
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tests, and all merged tests are unmerged after the tests are |
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performed, |
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- an actual, working D-Bus support. D-Bus-based tests |
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(i.e. the standard test library) are required to at least ping |
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the test object in pkg_setup() (done through the eclass) to ensure |
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they can't succeed without being actually run. D-Bus can be used to |
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send text test results; |
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d) new (working) tests: |
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- the test for phase function call order (as it was in the example |
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but fixed), |
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- a test for doins() failure handling (in EAPI < 4 and EAPI 4). |
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The next week should bring: |
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- a little cleanup in the library/case code inheritance to simplify |
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writing new tests, |
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- a few more tests, |
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- increased number of checks to ensure tests don't end up as false |
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negatives, |
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- a support for more Package Managers. |
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Right now, the test period is starting on my uni, so the development |
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may slow down a little. |
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[1] https://github.com/mgorny/pms-test-suite |
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[2] https://github.com/mgorny/pms-test-suite/network |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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