Can anyone approve my email to send reports?

2008-06-17 Thread Jose Luis Martinez
Hi, I suddenly noticed I have access to a freebsd 4.7 box with a 5.8.4 version of perl, and since I haven't seen many test reports on this OS / perl version, I decided to get a couple of tests reported (to contribute a bit to the testing community, as I appreciate very much your work). I

Re: Can anyone approve my email to send reports?

2008-06-17 Thread David Golden
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Jose Luis Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I report with [EMAIL PROTECTED], and see that the tests aren't getting through (only a couple). I've read that to get the reports reported directly I should subscribe to the list, but I don't want to subscribe

Idea for a smoke setup: read-only home directory

2008-06-17 Thread David Golden
So I keep noticing litter in my home directory while running the smoker. It looks like either temp files or default locations for things. I consider that bad behavior for tests. I'm considering making my home directory read-only and then smoking all of CPAN again to see what fails its tests.

Re: Idea for a smoke setup: read-only home directory

2008-06-17 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 18 Jun 2008, at 02:22, David Golden wrote: So I keep noticing litter in my home directory while running the smoker. It looks like either temp files or default locations for things. I consider that bad behavior for tests. I'm considering making my home directory read-only and then smoking

Re: Idea for a smoke setup: read-only home directory

2008-06-17 Thread David Golden
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Andy Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about a user who's home directory is a unionfs mount with the basic file structure R/O and a disposable R/W layer on top of it? It's not the clutter that concerns me -- it's that I don't think testers should be writing

Re: Idea for a smoke setup: read-only home directory

2008-06-17 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 18 Jun 2008, at 02:28, David Golden wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Andy Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about a user who's home directory is a unionfs mount with the basic file structure R/O and a disposable R/W layer on top of it? s/who's/whose/ It's not the clutter

Re: Idea for a smoke setup: read-only home directory

2008-06-17 Thread David Golden
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Andy Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah yes - in that case I agree. Out of interest what kind of stuff are people dumping there? * mail-audit.log -- that appears to be from Mail::Audit. * abc -- containing the string hello * cookies.txt -- containing the

Re: Idea for a smoke setup: read-only home directory

2008-06-17 Thread Elliot Shank
David Golden wrote: So I keep noticing litter in my home directory while running the smoker. It looks like either temp files or default locations for things. I consider that bad behavior for tests. I'm considering making my home directory read-only and then smoking all of CPAN again to see