[Bug 485596] Review Request: phoronix-test-suite - A Comprehensive Linux Benchmarking System

[bugzilla at redhat.com]

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional
comments should be made in the comments box of this bug.


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485596





--- Comment #16 from Michael Larabel <michael at michaellarabel.com>  2009-03-26 20:56:01 EDT ---
1. GPLv3+ is fine.

2. It can be 755 though doesn't need to be for it to work properly. Though in
the Git code and in the soon to be released version of PTS 1.8, it is made
executable just so it won't emit that potential problem.

3. To find all of the non free software tests, run: phoronix-test-suite
list-tests and then at the end of each line it should say FREE, RESTRICTED,
RETAIL, or NON-FREE. The overwhelming majority of the tests are free /
open-source.

In the future we may also split the phoronix-test-suite upstream package into
pts and pts-core/ where pts-core is our testing engine and where pts would just
contain the different test profiles, etc. This may make it easier for your
purposes of stripping out non-free tests in the future.

4. The reason that some files are downloaded and not fetched via the
distribution's package management system is to ensure better validity of the
test results. If just relying upon the distribution-supplied packages, we
cannot ensure the generated test results are comparable to other systems /
distributions. Different distributions may ship with slightly minor versions,
incorporate extra patches, build the software with different optimizations,
etc. That is why the main test files aren't fetched using the package
management system, since it could lead to unreliable results so we try to
reduce the number of variables at play.

Michael

-- 
Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are on the CC list for the bug.