On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 02:26:16AM +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: > Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > I'd like to suggest we make FEATURES=test (and therefore USE=test) the > > default behaviour, rather than the opt-in we currently have. Far too > > many packages fail their test phase. > > Sure everyone likes to watch glibc failing? :P </joke> > > Well, can't be done until bugs such as > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69343 are solved (at least as in > sticking RESTRICT=test there) instead of being ignored. > > > At the very least, ebuild maintainers and ATs should be running with > > tests switched on. If the tests are known to fail then the ebuild can > > either RESTRICT=test, or just return successfully from src_test() > > where the test report is useful even if some tests fail. > > See above. And even then, I don't think it's a good idea to force this > upon users. Lots of packages have tests that are very time-consuming, > and there are packages that always fail tests and it's pretty much > expected (PHP is one of them; and while the failure isn't fatal there, > it still takes tons of time to go thru those ~2000 tests). And there are > tons of packages where tests are more or less unmaintained.
Agreed. It may be better to instead have a FORCE="test" on certain ebuilds (mainly sci-* stuff where you want to be sure the numbers are coming out correctly) -- adding FEATURES="test" to the default set will cause serious breakage and will take quite some time to be fully fixed across the whole tree. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
