[Gluster-devel] Shell/build test proposal

[Jay Vyas]

Hmmmmm well maybe a VM which validated the install from scratch on fedora would be cool.  There are scripts to do this (I.e. Justin's article on building from source), which already exist.  

Versioning them in a git repo could make the documentation "self-healing".

:)

On May 17, 2013, at 8:00 PM, Anand Avati <anand.avati at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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