Regression testing

Stephen J. Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Sat Mar 19 17:24:19 UTC 2005


On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:14:21 -1000, Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:
> Kenneth Porter wrote:
> > --On Saturday, March 19, 2005 12:53 AM +0200 VilleSkyttä
> > <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
> >
> >> In rpm 4.2, that is.
> >> Anyway, it has been described in the max-rpm CVS snapshot for some time:
> >> http://rpm-devel.colug.net/max-rpm/s1-rpm-specref-scripts.html#S3-RPM-SPE
> >> CREF-CHECK
> >
> >
> > CPAN modules often have a "make test" phase, so that looks like a good
> > enhancement to implement in the RPM::Specfile package.
> >
> > There was a long thread not long ago on the Subversion mailing list
> > about whether end users should run tests when installing from a source
> > RPM (consensus was "yes") so that SRPM could also benefit. (Its tests
> > take quite awhile.)
> 
> Quite often software, especially many perl modules, require network
> tests during "make test".  We may need to make a policy for Fedora that
> such tests *must* be in a %check section, because we may want the the
> build system to totally disallow network access for security reasons.
> 

Yes.. this causes all kinds of alarms in certain places when people
forget that the perl modules try to do network access tests.




-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator




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