Dave Miner wrote: > 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.
ok, I have filed following bug in pkg/importer category: 6224 Plea for integrating SUNWinstall-test package into IPS repository Thanks ! Jan
