On Wed, 1 May 2013 19:18:52 -0600 Ryan Hill <dirtye...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2013 10:14:02 +0200 > Ralph Sennhauser <s...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:25:40 -0600 > > Ryan Hill <dirtye...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > I'm also going to rename the "test" flag to "regression-test" or > > > something similar to get it out of FEATURES="test" control. The > > > testsuite is a huge time-suck and only useful to developers IMO > > > (always expected to fail and primarily meant to be used to check > > > for regressions between patchsets). I'm a big supporter of > > > FEATURES="test" by default and I think this is a small step > > > towards that. > > > > This step is so tiny that we wont ever reach the goal like this. > > I was hoping it would set a precedent and then people would start > thinking of splitting up test into categories, maybe even start a > thread about it ;). Hehe, yes, you forced me to speak up with trying to set a precedent I think will get in the way of solving it in a more complete way. Though for that we have to agree on - split is desirable - which categories and how to classify tests - how to implement the splitting (EAPI support?) [...] > > ... and improve on how to configure Portage whether to run tests of > > any given category. > > Yeah I'd love to be able to do something like emerge TESTS="dev qa > system -extradeps -expensive" @world. > > I was thinking about a /etc/portage/package.test that works more like package.use. So most users will want to have something like: # package.test */* cheap Others might use: # package.test */* cheap normal */*::sunrise expensive my-pkg/foo * # broken test suite, bug XXX =dev-foo/bar-1.1 -* This would also be pretty similar to what your regression-tests useflag for gcc would have been. Even though Portage allows you to configure FEATURES=test on a per package basis since a couple years it doesn't seem to have become a common practice. While Portages mechanism is powerful it might be just to complex or tedious for the average user. As for your example command line 'emerge TESTS="dev qa system -extradeps -expensive" @world', could you elaborate on what the categories dev qa system are about?
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