jan damborsky wrote: > Jason Zhao wrote: >> Hi, Dave, >> >> Dave Miner wrote: >>> Jason Zhao wrote: >>>> Hi, Jan and William, >>>> >>>> As you know, our Beijing Team is developing test suites for libtd, >>>> libti >>>> and others. We are testing the libraries by the test drivers you are >>>> developing, thanks for the test drivers since they help us a lot when >>>> testing the libraries. >>>> >>>> Right now, the test suites are closed to finish development phase, and >>>> we will request to put them to STC gate, or moreover, to Open Source >>>> them. >>>> But we meet with an issue that all the test drivers(test_td, >>>> tdmgtst, ti >>>> test drivers and more...) could only be used by building them first >>>> from >>>> slim_source gate in "hg.opensolaris.org/hg/caiman/slim_source". As you >>>> know, building the required test drivers is not part of test >>>> execution, so >>>> we expect to the test suites are able to get the test drivers directly >>>> when running them. It will be better that we can get or download >>>> them, there >>>> are advantages if the test drivers could be open or put in download >>>> center. >>>> >>>> As following: >>>> 1. The test suites could dynamically grep the binaries as free and test >>>> them. >>>> 2. The test suite could test latest libraries and binaries in this way. >>>> >>>> We are not sure if you are planning to put the binary externally(E.g., >>>> download >>>> center or OpenSolaris). If you will, that will be great. >>>> >>>> Please tell us your comments. >>>> >>> >>> Jason, please file a bug requesting that these binaries be placed in >>> a package (probably a new, test-specific package). These are already >>> open, so that's not a problem, they just need to be delivered in >>> binary form to you, and a package is the way to do that. >> Thank you, Dave. >> >> It is really great, I will file a bug to request the binaries for >> (libtd, libti, and likely liborchestrator) in Bugzilla of OpenSolaris. >> >> Could you tell me when the open binaries could be integrated into the >> packages and external users could reach them after I file that bug? > > Jason, as bug 5284 is fixed for now, Target Discovery and Target > Instantiation > test drivers are now built during full build of slim_source gate and > bundled > with new SUNWinstall-test SVR4 package: > > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/caiman/slim_source/usr/src/pkgdefs/SUNWinstall-test/ > > > > As far as other test drivers are concerned (orchestrator, ICT, ...) > they are currently work in progress (ETA not specified yet). > > > Dave, should we deliver SUNWinstall-test into IPS repository ? > If this is the case, I would file bug for this. >
I don't see any reason not to. The test folks would prefer to get it that way, I believe. Dave
