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Date:      Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:54:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:      pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: regression-test
Message-ID:  <676047.76296.qm@web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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Christian Weisgerber wrote:
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> In particular, running tests of what duration would be considered
> appropriate?  E.g., building audio/flac takes a minute here, running
> the tests sixteen, which I suspect would be excessive.

FWIW, I started adding those regression-test targets to many ports because =
they are extremely useful: while trying to update to the latest coreutils I=
 found everything apparently built but everything was actually broken. Now =
I am finding bugs in some ports that I thought were fine.

It's good to use it for (short) things that actually test functionality. Us=
ing it for benchmarks is really NOT a good idea: it takes a lot of time and=
 also the results from the build cluster can vary hugely to make them of an=
y value.

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