On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 04:42:08PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Karel Zak wrote:
> >
> > Don't distribute util-linux-ng tests to end-users! Don't execute
> > util-linux-ng tests automatically in your .spec files, debian/rules!
>
> how come ?
We have tools like mount, swapon, hwclock ... it's not possible to
test these utils separately without any impact to the rest of your
system.
Tests touch/modify:
- /etc/fstab
- /etc/blkid.tab
- hw clock
- /proc/sys/kernel/shm*
- call swapon/swapoff, mount/umount, losetup
I don't think it's good idea to blindly use the tests on production
systems.
The basic purpose of the tests is to use it before "git commit; git
format-patch". ;-)
Karel
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