Re: intent to package TETware and VSX-PCTS from TOG
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> I wonder how the test suite are operated. I think the "main" app, which
> starts and controls the tests, should be accessible by normal user (so user
> joe can check if the sysadmin has a POSIX compliant system, at least for
> parts which don't require root privs). However, the individual tests,
> modules and whatever else don't need to be in standard locations, IMHO. Look
> for example at perl, it has modules in lib/perl. GNU has libexec, maybe we
> need this, too?
>
Well, for the POSIX test suite (something I am still learning about) the
tests are run by a prespecified user (vsx0), who's home is $TET_ROOT/vsx4
(the location of the test suite). Thus Joe would need the password for
vsx0 before she could run the test suite.
While I'm sure that the tests could be restructured to run from any user
account, I'm not up for the job.
I suspect that if the debian-testing group uses TETware to develope
package testing scripts, that some subset of the tests will be executable
by any user, although installation will still require root priviledge.
The fact that the test suites that may run under TETware are not
determined, and may not be constrained in certain ways, that makes this
decission such a cloudy issue. I'm going to have to choose one and see
just how bad the consequences are by using it.
Thanks,
Dwarf
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