On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 08:09 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 06:50:56PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 21:53 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > It happens too often in > > > Rawhide, and a simple test (in %check or elsewhere) could fix it. > > > > You can't really test a system boot in a package's %check. That's very > > definitely not what it's for. > > It turns out you can. Read the link I posted: > > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/qemu-sanity-check/ I've read it. I'm not exactly convinced. > Yes, it doesn't catch every possible problem, but the kernel is > sometimes pushed out with major problems that could be caught with > simple testing. IIRC you had one example for this, and the bug turned out to be racy and hardware-dependent, which is why the kernel devs didn't see it in the tests they *do* actually do. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
