On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 04:42:08PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Karel Zak wrote:
> >
> >  Don't distribute util-linux-ng tests to end-users! Don't execute
> >  util-linux-ng tests automatically in your .spec files, debian/rules!
> 
> how come ?

 We have tools like mount, swapon, hwclock ... it's not possible to
 test these utils separately without any impact to the rest of your
 system.

 Tests touch/modify:

    - /etc/fstab
    - /etc/blkid.tab
    - hw clock
    - /proc/sys/kernel/shm*
    - call swapon/swapoff, mount/umount, losetup


 I don't think it's good idea to blindly use the tests on production
 systems.

 The basic purpose of the tests is to use it before "git commit; git
 format-patch". ;-)


    Karel

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