On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Prasanna Santhanam <t...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 04:58:45AM -0400, David Nalley wrote:
>> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Prasanna Santhanam <t...@apache.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:51:12AM -0400, David Nalley wrote:
>> >> Hi folks:
>> >>
>> >> I came across an interesting problem today, and think it's one that
>> >> deserves fixing.
>> >>
>> >> I looked at our jenkins config and found that we build packages in a
>> >> manner that is different from how our documentation tells users to
>> >> build those packages. IMO while there may be more than one way to skin
>> >> the cat, we should at least be testing the manner we tell others to
>> >> use. (or perhaps changing the method we tell users to use to match the
>> >> tests we are doing)
>> >>
>> >> Such disconnects between how our user base consumes ACS and how we
>> >> test it is bound to cause us problems.
>> >>
>> >
>> > What was different? The package.sh script in our repo was modified to
>> > take options but performs the same steps as does the package job on
>> > jenkins.  We only write the full complete `rpmbuild` command on our
>> > jenkins job.
>> >
>>
>> How do you know they will always remain the same?
>> Being the same is not the point - we aren't testing the way we tell
>> users to do it. We wouldn't know if the way we tell users is broken or
>> not, because we aren't exercising that path. One of them needs to
>> change so that they are the same - even if they are the same in
>> effect.
>>
>
> Oh I fixed this btw. we're in sync with docs now.
>
> --


Awesome - thanks

--David

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