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On Dienstag, 26. Juni 2007, Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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> I recently enabled the "test" feature on Portage and notice that a |
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> couple of packages routinely fail their test phases. Is this expected |
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> behavior? More specifically, should I file bug reports if I see such |
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> failures? These are unstable packages (so far) and if this will help |
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> get them out of ~x86 I'll gladly figure out what failed and file reports. |
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a) don't use test. It is just a waste of time. For some packages 'test' takes |
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way more time than compiling and installing. |
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b) don't be scared - a lot of packages have failing tests - for some tests it |
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is even the right thing when they fail, others are just broken in the |
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test-department. As a rule of thumb: for everything outside of sci-* test is |
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a useless waste of time... |
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