From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: kerolasa@gmail.com, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: v2.22-rc2 wish list
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:37:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120730163720.GM5845@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50127F34.70406@bernhard-voelker.de>
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:44:52PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> Building as root is certainly not okay, but prior to packaging UL into a
> distro or applying it on a few servers, I expect every admin and
> distro maintainer to run 'make check'.
I have added tests/run.sh to 'make check' for non-root users. It should
be enough for smart people who do not rebuild their packages as root.
If you want to run all utils-linux tests then you have to
cd tests && ./run.sh
*manually* as root user.
> With a proper test suite, we give him/her a basic test to check whether
> the software is running as expected in his/her environment. Otherwise,
> he doesn't have much chance other than waiting for productive problems.
I have no problem to enable all the tests by default for all users,
but we need to *review and make robust* the scripts where is
ts_skip_nonroot.
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
http://karelzak.blogspot.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-30 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-27 8:10 v2.22-rc2 wish list Karel Zak
2012-07-27 8:26 ` Sami Kerola
2012-07-27 10:31 ` Karel Zak
2012-07-27 10:47 ` Bernhard Voelker
2012-07-27 11:15 ` Karel Zak
2012-07-27 11:44 ` Bernhard Voelker
2012-07-27 13:13 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2012-07-27 20:27 ` Karel Zak
2012-07-30 16:37 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2012-07-31 5:21 ` Bernhard Voelker
[not found] ` <5012B7B4.8070001@gmail.com>
2012-07-27 17:59 ` Bruce Dubbs
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