Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:35:01 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regression-test Message-ID: <20080619163501.GB12160@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <676047.76296.qm@web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <676047.76296.qm@web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:54:17AM -0700, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > Christian Weisgerber wrote: > ... > > In particular, running tests of what duration would be considered > > appropriate? E.g., building audio/flac takes a minute here, running > > the tests sixteen, which I suspect would be excessive. > > FWIW, I started adding those regression-test targets to many ports > because they are extremely useful: while trying to update to the > latest coreutils I found everything apparently built but everything > was actually broken. Now I am finding bugs in some ports that I > thought were fine. Which is why I would recommend wrapping them in checks for MAINTAINER_MODE or something similar. This way you, as the maintainer, can turn them on when you want but they don't affect anything else. -- WXS
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