From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Running the full MariaDB test suite Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:47:08 -0400 Message-ID: <20180717214708.GA32734@jasmine.lan> References: <87o9f56339.fsf@fastmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38165) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffXoS-0007Om-Rl for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:47:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffXoP-0004nT-M1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:47:16 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:57711) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffXoP-0004nD-8N for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:47:13 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87o9f56339.fsf@fastmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Marius Bakke Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:04:42PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: > Hello! >=20 > So far our MariaDB package has only run some very lightweight tests. > 10.1.34 flipped a switch that runs the entire "MTR" test suite. >=20 > After patching /bin/ls and /bin/sh, and fixing a couple of failures that > showed up after about 4 hours each, the most recent attempt took eight > hours during which my SSD was completely thrashed. And then it failed a > test case related to the "disks" plugin. >=20 > The switch was flipped back shortly after the release: >=20 > https://github.com/MariaDB/server/commit/0a9d78f51d74be7708f2efd940311bf7= b33108e9 >=20 > Since 10.1.35 won't run these tests anymore, we could skip them for this > release and don't care about it. >=20 > Alternatively, we can replace the 'check' phase with something that > invokes "mtr" with sensible arguments, and passing our own list of tests > to skip. That is what Debian does: >=20 > https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-10.1/blob/stretch/debian/ru= les#L96 >=20 > Thoughts? >=20 > I'm leaning towards the latter approach, since I've already spent > considerable time tracking down related failures, and it already > identified a potential problem in the "disks" plugin. But it means > building MariaDB will take many hours even on powerful machines. No strong opinion but the latter approach sounds good to me. There are already some packages with very long timeouts for the armhf (and formerly MIPS) build machines, so there is precedent for very long builds. --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEsFFZSPHn08G5gDigJkb6MLrKfwgFAltOY9kACgkQJkb6MLrK fwgpXQ//W8JaPd8wlahmXQWB8KQj7o7SUekfEJFbNoznPDAzr98T8x4Xb47jxh+3 dC14+hUMI3guJyfD17hcretWJd0f9dEzkBLQ13pLvL+ukaCjxQjBYLqUa6l1SrYZ 6xyamFLw0tdcmfLCxW5+TVn2D5aHEyEL+EHRUoIMIZn9s6r2sLNqxJisGVqcEwbL 7nENhRDSqhV4WeTBgwrL27Zu4BDi+Hfcm5vyGRQnv64Ke/St2yBCX/TKacQUx/lL rtB0wAXgrYfXC1Y9pBLnle2Rc52TlQSDo09kp8COkL2xSL7Yq1t2oHmBEp+YN8FE 5evd4wPPsfExGIR+Wn0OXkrfVNB4bYx+dgrFTbZrX3X9M1anUiHvAin0GDrGYMz7 8hcjEOz6igSvcPpZKVv/MsJ4p2vcMCFFhW9shuQbpX/Hb2TZ4eVukvXqm1jTcyDc pp/LDIlh27Hn1i53mXgkLhFcq+pbENkFOQeOOErHmMi4UpVLBCHV/FKwk+W2/OCm sjFhTam/thY/46F+6c+Q5Hmriz+WhaEYOOfhvwa2oS254y1aLxI3yhtsCy1jB3Da m7sZmu36SdX/pZZOudnb/LbFRBli5PnDnuVjOlsgWlOvH/kBNr+DmdRk2X+++15d Wp7+cdF+zk1Zfp3uoUaeaGgy421Fq0uN/AfnB8rgXzZ07+zVMVI= =WLju -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7--