On Wed, 1 May 2013 19:18:52 -0600
Ryan Hill wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2013 10:14:02 +0200
> Ralph Sennhauser wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:25:40 -0600
> > Ryan Hill 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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