Re: Testing packages with mock and Xnest?

2012-04-25 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:15:45PM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: Here's the draft: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Testing Comments/additions welcomed! Cool. Ive read the draft now. I thought it was going to be about using Xnest with graphical unittests. Oops. Doesn't 100% fit

Re: Testing packages with mock and Xnest?

2012-04-25 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:15:45PM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: Here's the draft: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Testing Comments/additions welcomed! Cool.  Ive read the draft now.  I thought it was going

Re: Testing packages with mock and Xnest?

2012-04-25 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 14:39 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: Hmm... I think that would be quite a bit more complicated. I don't think Xnest would be the right tool for that. I really don't know enough about X to guess. I would think that the build server probably runs without X and even if it could

Testing packages with mock and Xnest?

2012-04-20 Thread Richard Shaw
I've occasionally wanted to test a packages built for another release of Fedora and didn't really care to setup a bare metal or VM to do it. I've found I can use mock (or probably any other chroot program/helper) and Xnest to do this. Is there any interest in putting this in the Fedora wiki

Re: Testing packages with mock and Xnest?

2012-04-20 Thread Jared K. Smith
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any interest in putting this in the Fedora wiki somewhere? Am I late to the party and everyone already knows how to do this? It's a wiki. Be bold! -- Jared Smith -- devel mailing list

Re: Testing packages with mock and Xnest?

2012-04-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Jared K. Smith jsm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any interest in putting this in the Fedora wiki somewhere? Am I late to the party and everyone already knows how to do this?

Re: Testing packages with mock and Xnest?

2012-04-20 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:15:10AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Jared K. Smith jsm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any interest in putting this in the Fedora wiki somewhere? Am I

Re: Testing packages with mock and Xnest?

2012-04-20 Thread Richard Shaw
Here's the draft: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Testing Comments/additions welcomed! Thanks, Richard -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel