[CentOS-devel] rhel-6 rebuild summary
Hubert Bahr
hab at hbahr.org
Tue Jan 4 06:44:34 UTC 2011
Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hello Hubert,
>
> On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 01:33 -0600, Hubert Bahr wrote:
>
>> I changed the spec file to allow up to 5 errors and
>> it completed the build.
>>
>
> That sounds ugly. If you do this kind of patching you should patch out
> the specific test failures, not set a number of random tests that are
> allowed to fail. Just a thought.
>
>
All a matter of perspective. This is one of over 2000 source packages
to build binary's and it passes 99.9% of the test cases, and this 5
character change to a specfile allowed it to build. The previous
alternative was to kill it during a test and then completing the build.
The other one was to skip the testing in total. There are 433 bugs
filed against nss. Some were just expired certificates causing
problems. I chose not worry about it unless I run into further specific
problems that point me back to nss. In this case I just wanted to have
a baseline should I have need to modify nss source (unlikely unless it
is for branding purposes). If I make an error that increases the count
above current value, I would still be alerted. My intuition says it is
probably a problem with the test case, not a problem with the source or
build technique. I would like to hear from anybody who has built
rhel-6 nss from RedHat's source rpms, on their results and what
technique they applied.
Hubert
> Regards,
> Leonard.
>
>
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