Packages with missing %check

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Feb 27 08:12:59 UTC 2014


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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