On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Can anyone please tell me what is and is not allowed, as far as >> network access, on the mips buildds, and how the failure appears to a >> program that tries to do something forbidden, or best of all, suggest > > No network access/usage is allowed during package build, be it on the > buildd or anywhere else. Rule of thumb.
I would rather not disable the network-server tests altogether. Running the test suite on Debian's buildds is essentially the only way either I or upstream can test the program on architectures other than x86/amd64, and it's not a useful program if its networking code is broken. The network activity in the testsuite is strictly on the loopback interface, which I personally think should be allowed in general. There *is* an upstream plan to do these tests over a Unix domain socket, but that's not happening soon (they have to replace their network library first) -- and depending on what's been done to the buildd, that might not even help. In addition, I am trying to avoid debugging by upload, so it would be nice if I could know what was done to the buildds so I could duplicate it on my own machine for testing! zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
