[Gluster-devel] Shell/build test proposal

Anand Avati anand.avati at gmail.com
Sat May 18 01:00:11 UTC 2013


There is one - tests/basic/rpm.t which is run against every commit. However
it only guarantees a that an RPM can be built on a machine which is similar
to the build server itself.

Avati


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Jay Vyas <jayunit100 at gmail.com> wrote:

> There should be a test that confirms that the build actually produces rpms
> :)
>
> That would have caught this bug.
>
> On May 17, 2013, at 5:54 PM, Justin Clift <jclift at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > On 18/05/2013, at 4:19 AM, Jay Vyas wrote:
> >> Ahh yes, well the lesson i learned was to build from branches instead
> of from master (switched to branch release-3.4) and that solved it.
> >
> > Well, that's one way of doing it. :)
> >
> > Personally, I do build from master 99.5% of the time, as it's
> > *supposed* to work all the time.  The automated testing that's
> > done for all of the patches is (in theory) meant to stop general
> > breakage for things like this.  Of course though, things don't
> > always play ball,
> >
> > When it doesn't, I generally file a BZ (if one's not already
> > there), and try to figure out the cause/fix.
> >
> >
> >> Justin maybe on your guide to gluster installation from source you
> should
> >> also suggest this?
> >
> > Including info on how to build from the branches is a decent idea.
> >
> > I've been kind of avoiding it so far, because that starts down a fairly
> > complicated road.  Different branches have slightly different needs for
> > compiling (different dependencies, different ./configure options), and
> > I've been wanting to keep that rpm compiling page as simple as possible.
> >
> > Maybe that needs to be revisited though... :)
> >
> >
> >> I update my blog post that "steals" some of that content :)
> >
> > Steal away.  The info on that page is Community knowledge, and the
> > wider it gets spread/stolen/etc the better. :)
> >
> > + Justin
> >
> > --
> > Open Source and Standards @ Red Hat
> >
> > twitter.com/realjustinclift
> >
>
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