From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 16:20:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F3E910656B4 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:20:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com) Received: from web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 077F48FC2B for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:20:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 76768 invoked by uid 60001); 19 Jun 2008 15:54:17 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=0alGjtbGzVbveMDvMWCpgotXLOOzQfzWwKkeoHAE1ew3luLOFiMnxD5Bw+0ULaMx/wjbdXWv6qKFCeq/nTRJ1zbllh8znzZEZFCCHZj07rL5XuF67ZUYwTZb0cHLvolzn+df8csm6ER+nptS4bleS48RgkZ4h0qloGYelCFflMY=; Received: from [190.157.93.233] by web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:54:17 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.199 Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:54:17 -0700 (PDT) From: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <676047.76296.qm@web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: regression-test X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:20:59 -0000 Christian Weisgerber wrote: ... > 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. Pedro.=0A=0A=0A ___________________________________ =0AScopri il Blog = di Yahoo! Mail: trucchi, novit=E0, consigli... e la tua opinione!=0Ahttp://= www.ymailblogit.com/blog/