On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 08:09 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 06:50:56PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 21:53 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > It happens too often in
> > Rawhide, and a simple test (in %check or elsewhere) could fix it.
>
> You can't really test a system boot in a package's %check. That's very
> definitely not what it's for.
It turns out you can. Read the link I posted:
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/qemu-sanity-check/
I've read it. I'm not exactly convinced.
Yes, it doesn't catch every possible problem, but the kernel is
sometimes pushed out with major problems that could be caught with
simple testing.
IIRC you had one example for this, and the bug turned out to be racy and
hardware-dependent, which is why the kernel devs didn't see it in the
tests they *do* actually do.
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