Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:19:17 -0500 From: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> To: bsd-lists@bsdforge.com Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: importing kyua into the base system Message-ID: <CACNAnaGB3dDV9rc9xyEhqGHvTvYZFz0-fbZbW4rurTr_V05sUA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <0963a2f8e3cfad5639264e694e56e28d@udns.ultimatedns.net> References: <20200317164829.GB83983@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <0963a2f8e3cfad5639264e694e56e28d@udns.ultimatedns.net>
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On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:14 PM Chris <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:48:29 +0000 Brooks Davis brooks@freebsd.org said > > > I'll be importing kyua and it's dependency lutok into the base system > > this week. Integrating it into the FreeBSD build system will make it > > available by default which is especially valuable on emerging > > architectures were we aren't building packages yet (e.g. riscv). > > > From the wiki (https://github.com/jmmv/kyua/wiki/About) > > Use cases: New system installation: > ... > When setting up a new server with brand-new hardware, it's very desirable > to ensure a minimum stability of the operating system that runs on top and > how it interacts with the hardware. > erm... *minimum* stability of the operating system?! > If this is as mistaken as it appears. Someone(tm) might want to run kyua > against the wiki. ;) > I believe the point it's trying to make it is that tests aren't all-inclusive; they will miss things or induce little stress, but they're a great smoketest to rule out most of the basic issues. You can't really make much stronger claims than this about the stability of the system based on running a test suite, unless we're talking stress2 style suites.
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