Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:11:50AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: Is not rawhide the sanity check, Yes. even if used productively by many? That's the problem then. Rawhide is explicitly labeled as NOT being intended nor suitable for any sort of production use. This

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 12:18 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: I was thinking of something more like make check (that would run a test suite), or maintainer gives it a spin before releasing. But maybe something about the maintainer's set-up was different enough that those tests would all pass. Few

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 08:56 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I thought AutoQA was going to do this, but it's been disappointing. AutoQA is under active development, still. It's a complex project. Especially being able to automate this kind of high level functionality testing is tricky:

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Jan F. Chadima
I have caused this affair. Sorry about that. Openssh version 5.9 I tested and I do not understand why the test passed. And my opinion of defective packages in rawhide? I used to regularly downgrade sensitive packages when they are in unstable versions and I consider it a feature rawhide. Jan

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/12/2011 03:28 PM, Jan F. Chadima wrote: I have caused this affair. Sorry about that. Openssh version 5.9 I tested and I do not understand why the test passed. And my opinion of defective packages in rawhide? I used to regularly downgrade sensitive packages when they are in unstable

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 12.9.2011 12:03, Rahul Sundaram napsal(a): If you maintain any of the critical path packages, it would be very useful to test them more instead of just a mad version number chase. Take a deep breath, count to ten, and then repeat to yourself “S..t happens.” Don’t throw around accusations

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/12/2011 03:39 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: Dne 12.9.2011 12:03, Rahul Sundaram napsal(a): If you maintain any of the critical path packages, it would be very useful to test them more instead of just a mad version number chase. Take a deep breath, count to ten, and then repeat to yourself “S..t

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 01:02:26AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 08:56 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I thought AutoQA was going to do this, but it's been disappointing. AutoQA is under active development, still. It's a complex project. I hope I can make a

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Jan F. Chadima
On Sep 12, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 09/12/2011 03:28 PM, Jan F. Chadima wrote: I have caused this affair. Sorry about that. Openssh version 5.9 I tested and I do not understand why the test passed. And my opinion of defective packages in rawhide? I used to regularly

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Kamil Paral
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 01:02:26AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 08:56 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I thought AutoQA was going to do this, but it's been disappointing. I haven't read the whole thread, but I also feel the rate of AutoQA development is slow.

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/12/2011 04:03 PM, Kamil Paral wrote: I haven't read the whole thread, but I also feel the rate of AutoQA development is slow. Unfortunately I don't know how to improve that, since there are just a few people working on it and they are also participating in release validation testing,

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Rahul Sundaram wrote: If you continue to consider it a feature, it justifies (in your mind) pushing broken packages into the repository but it does affect release versions as well because we have to catch and fix bugs much later. If you maintain any of the critical path packages, it would

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: Didn't say like, said similar. Don't you test your changes somehow? Or do you just toss the mods over the wall and hope for the best? I don't think so. Share your test cases for those packages that should just work--not all packages. Forget that the changes are for

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 13:39 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: Didn't say like, said similar. Don't you test your changes somehow? Or do you just toss the mods over the wall and hope for the best? I don't think so. Share your test cases for those packages that should just

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
On 09/12/2011 07:39 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: Didn't say like, said similar. Don't you test your changes somehow? Or do you just toss the mods over the wall and hope for the best? I don't think so. Share your test cases for those packages that should just work--not

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 13:37 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: If you continue to consider it a feature, it justifies (in your mind) pushing broken packages into the repository but it does affect release versions as well because we have to catch and fix bugs much later. If

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Nils Philippsen wrote: We shouldn't revert to untagging broken packages in Rawhide just to make it less consequential for people to break stuff. We should revert to untagging broken packages because bumping epoch is costlier in the long run as epoch is often disregarded. People using Rawhide

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 11:17 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 01:02:26AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 08:56 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I thought AutoQA was going to do this, but it's been disappointing. AutoQA is under active

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 11:48 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: AutoQA is under active development, still. It's a complex project. I hope I can make a suggestion: Can we have it so that packagers can commit a file into Fedora git (eg. autoqa.sh), and have that picked up by AutoQA and run

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 16:07 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 09/12/2011 04:03 PM, Kamil Paral wrote: I haven't read the whole thread, but I also feel the rate of AutoQA development is slow. Unfortunately I don't know how to improve that, since there are just a few people working on it and

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/11/2011 02:13 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: Is not rawhide the sanity check, even if used productively by many? Not many and I think the branch being less fragile would certainly help. If I know my system will still boot and I can access the network and my browser is enough for me to consider

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Frank Murphy wrote: On 11/09/11 09:33, Jim Meyering wrote: darrell pfeifer wrote: Fails for me too, with the same error. Thanks for confirming that. I don't mean to be rude or inflammatory, but do have to wonder how such a fundamentally-broken package was released -- even to rawhide. In

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 09/11/2011 02:13 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: Is not rawhide the sanity check, even if used productively by many? Not many and I think the branch being less fragile would certainly help. If I know my system will still boot and I can access the network and my browser is

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 09:43:27 +0100, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/09/11 09:33, Jim Meyering wrote: darrell pfeifer wrote: Fails for me too, with the same error. Thanks for confirming that. I don't mean to be rude or inflammatory, but do have to wonder how such

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
On 09/11/2011 04:33 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: darrell pfeifer wrote: Fails for me too, with the same error. Thanks for confirming that. I don't mean to be rude or inflammatory, but do have to wonder how such a fundamentally-broken package was released -- even to rawhide. In the fedora

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:18:51PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: On 11/09/11 09:33, Jim Meyering wrote: darrell pfeifer wrote: Fails for me too, with the same error. Thanks for confirming that. I don't mean to be rude or inflammatory, but do have to wonder how such

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Till Maas
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:44:35AM -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: On 09/11/2011 04:33 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: darrell pfeifer wrote: Fails for me too, with the same error. Thanks for confirming that. I don't mean to be rude or inflammatory, but do have to wonder how such a

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Frank Murphy wrote: Is not rawhide the sanity check, Yes. even if used productively by many? That's the problem then. Rawhide is explicitly labeled as NOT being intended nor suitable for any sort of production use. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: Maybe there needs to be a classification for rawhide similar to the karma system for updates-testing, but limited to just a set of packages that should just always work (maybe openssh would be one). For such packages, there should be a test validation set that the

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Stefan Held
Am Montag, den 12.09.2011, 00:19 +0200 schrieb Kevin Kofler: NO! Just no! +1000 This karma model doesn't even work well for releases, it'd be completely insane for Rawhide. +1000 -- Stefan Held VI has only 2 Modes: obi unixkiste orgThe first one is

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
On 09/11/2011 06:19 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: Maybe there needs to be a classification for rawhide similar to the karma system for updates-testing, but limited to just a set of packages that should just always work (maybe openssh would be one). For such packages, there

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7...@cox.net wrote: On 09/11/2011 04:33 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: darrell pfeifer wrote: Fails for me too, with the same error. Thanks for confirming that. I don't mean to be rude or inflammatory, but do have to wonder how such a fundamentally-broken package

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-11 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: Is not rawhide the sanity check, Yes. even if used productively by many? That's the problem then. Rawhide is explicitly labeled as NOT being intended nor suitable for any sort of production use. You _need_ people to use