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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>,
	NetFilter <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nft 0/6] add infrastructure for unit tests
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2023 16:33:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZUUS2CuHJAVxc7Ih@calendula> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231103122641.GC8035@breakpoint.cc>

On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 01:26:41PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for sending an initial empty skeleton.
> 
> > There are new new make targets:
> > 
> >   - "build-all"
> >   - "check" (runs "normal" tests, like unit tests and "tools/check-tree.sh").
> >   - "check-more" (runs extra tests, like "tests/build")
> >   - "check-all" (runs "check" + "check-more")
> >   - "check-local" (a subset of "check")
> >   - "check-TESTS" (the unit tests)
> 
> "check-unit" perhaps?  TESTS isn't very descriptive.  Also,
> why CAPS? If this is some pre-established standard, then maybe just
> document that in the commit changelog.
> 
> Please don't do anything yet and wait for more comments, but
> I would prefer 'make check' to run all tests that we have.

We had a few tests that have been shown to be unstable.

I just would like that I don't hit this when making the release and
hold back a release because a test fails occasionally.

If we go for `make check' then all test runs must be reliable.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-11-03 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-03 11:05 [PATCH nft 0/6] add infrastructure for unit tests Thomas Haller
2023-11-03 11:05 ` [PATCH nft 1/6] gitignore: ignore build artifacts from top level file Thomas Haller
2023-11-03 11:30   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2023-11-03 12:57     ` Thomas Haller
2023-11-03 11:05 ` [PATCH nft 2/6] build: add basic "check-{local,more,all}" and "build-all" make targets Thomas Haller
2023-11-03 11:05 ` [PATCH nft 3/6] build: add `make check-tests-build` to add build test Thomas Haller
2023-11-03 11:05 ` [PATCH nft 4/6] build: add check for consistency of source tree Thomas Haller
2023-11-03 11:05 ` [PATCH nft 5/6] build: cleanup if blocks for conditional compilation Thomas Haller
2023-11-03 11:05 ` [PATCH nft 6/6] tests/unit: add unit tests for libnftables Thomas Haller
2023-11-03 11:43 ` [PATCH nft 0/6] add infrastructure for unit tests Pablo Neira Ayuso
2023-11-03 12:26 ` Florian Westphal
2023-11-03 13:08   ` Thomas Haller
2023-11-03 15:33   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2023-11-03 15:57     ` Thomas Haller

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