-- Greg Freemyer On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> On 10/20/14 6:55 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote: >> >> > Opensuse is building rpms of 1.1.1 so the build infrastructure isn't >> > too badly broken. I don't know if they are following FHS, but I >> > doubt they use /opt. >> >> The build works fine, it's the "Makepkgs" that I think is a bit odd, >> at least for RPM packaging. > > It's just odd, regardless of what it is packaging. > >> Also, if we really want to encourage packaging, we should probably start >> sticking official version numbers on it. "1.1.1" was tagged in Dec 2012, >> and there have been no "releases" since. > > There are more recent tags than that. There were some linux-v3.[6-8] > tags added when kernels v3.[6-8] we released. Those tags are > basically meaningless from a release perspective, though. > > As it is, for the purpose of the discussion I'll argue that we don't > need official release versions or tarballs and that anyone who needs > packages for xfstests is Doing it Wrong(tm). A potential use case with openSUSE and why I "think" they packaged it is to include a subset of xfstest in there automated testing. As of the last 9 months openSUSE's "factory" release has adopted a rolling release mechanism similar to rawhide, but possibly a little more reliable. Many submissions to factory (the rawhide equivalent) are pushed through a ring of automated QA tests. Separately on a daily basis the entire current factory release is pushed through a series of automated QA tests. If all QA tests pass, then a full factory snapshot is automatically released for end-user incorporation. My hope is that xfstests is packaged by openSUSE so it can easily be incorporated into that series of automated tests. If they are not yet doing that, then having xfstests packaged simplifies the future incorporation of xfstests into the auto-QA cycle. Overview: https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/ Table of automated test results: https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/ Notice for example that ext4 is a testsuite selection in the testsuite pull down. I assume that testsuite uses xfstests to exercise ext4 prior to an automated release of factory. The 2014-10-17 build of a couple days ago is an example of a build that failed the ext4 testsuite: https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/27955 The 2014-10-18 build on the otherhand worked: https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/28263 It is interesting to look through the various screen shots captured by the automated test system. I don't see automated tests for xfs or btrfs which is a surprise since both of them are default filesystem choices for factory. (btrfs is the default choice for / and xfs is the default for /home). Note: openSUSE still will do formal releases and the next one is openSUSE 13.2 due out next month. 13.2 should be getting lots of manual testing in addition to the automated QA testing. Greg _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
