On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:14:21 -1000, Warren Togami <wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quite often software, especially many perl modules, require network > tests during "make test". We may need to make a policy for Fedora that > such tests *must* be in a %check section, because we may want the the > build system to totally disallow network access for security reasons. It would likely be useful to establish what sort of tests are acceptable from a %check section... Remote network tests might be useful for some things, but they really aren't appropriate for inclusion in built time tests. Perhaps if tests were split into a compact/exhaustive subsets they could be included in the exhaustive set. What sorts of restrictions would be acceptable for build time testing of packages? Memory consumption? wall clock on platform x? temporary disk space usage?
