Fwd: df64 pkgsrc 2012Q2 DragonFly 3.0/x86_64 2012-07-24 11:35

[John Marino]

On 8/10/2012 15:02, Francois Tigeot wrote:
>
> Yes, I did disable these few tests permanently upstream. NetBSD is a fragile
> platform from LO's point of view.

My philosophy are tests are for the packager.
E.g. I have a few compiler packages that have test capability.  I run 
the tests.  Once I'm satisfied with the package state, the tests are off 
by default.  We already know the result of the test, retesting is 
redundant work that doesn't buy you anything.

I'd like to see LO have the ability to *NOT* test per switch.  Unless 
the tests are part of the compilation process, they are a waste of time 
in "production" mode.

IMHO, of course.

John