On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Karel Zak wrote: > 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.
perhaps we should split these then between tests that are "safe" and tests which funk with the system ... `make check` would invoke the tests like standard autotool packages, but the default could be controlled via ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode ... -mike
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