On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 15:05 +0100, Thomas Anders wrote: > Dave Shield wrote:
> > I've just submitted a patch to skip these particular tests if > > 'id -u' doesn't return 0. Currently this only applies for HP-UX > > kit, but the same thing may be applicable on other systems too. > > This may be fine for the snmpnetstat test, but I'm not convinced > this is the Right Thing To Do for the snmpwalk test. Well, I'm not convinced that the snmpwalk test is the Right Test In The First Place :-) One of the things I've learned while helping to teach our students, is that when constructing a test plan, the most important thing is to be very clear about *exactly* what is being tested. The current test suite is *much* better than it was, but I don't think that the "snmpwalk" test is sufficiently focused to be very useful. If it fails on any particular system, where should we start looking to try and fix the problem? Given that I've been pushing hard recently for "make test" to be the benchmark for whether to hold up the release cycle, I've got plans to revamp the test suite, to make it much more comprehensive and clearly focused. I suggest that skipping the snmpwalk test is the simplest and easiest fix in the short term (i.e. for the 5.3 release cycle) - and I can look at replacing this with something more sensible in the future. Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list Net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
