On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:23:04 -0400, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > (I package fio for Fedora, is it not commonly available on other > > distros?) > > opensuse has it in the benchmarking repo, but not in the main release > repos. If it is getting regular updates and users will want to have > the latest version, it makes sense for opensuse to leave it that way. > This discussion may change that. > > As of a year ago, xfstests dependencies could all be met from the main > repos. (see howto http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:XFStests) > > I believe a basic set of xfstests is run as part of the QA process for > every factory build (factory is similar to rawhide). At least it was > during 12.1 pre-release testing a year ago. > http://openqa.opensuse.org/results/ > > Not a huge deal, but having xfstests tests which depend on fio would > either mean opensuse dropping those tests that depend on fio from its > routine QA testing, or it would mean adding fio to the main distro. > > How far into xfstests is fio likely to integrate? If it is to become > a core tool and it is not going to be provided by xfstests itself, I > can try to submit fio to factory. It will just have to kept new > enough to satisfy xfstests version requirements. As far as i can say fio potentially can replace most of hardcoded regression binaries. > > I do hope that if the distro has to provide a fio package, then > xfstests only depend on the version, not the git check-in. > > Greg > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
