From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Testing the installer
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:27:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h80nb003.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tv4yqxd9.fsf@gmail.com> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:02:26 +0100")
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Hello!
Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> skribis:
> That sounds like a nice idea! I guess we can discuss it more deeply
> during Guix Days, but here are a few thoughts:
>
> * Testing from a VM won't cover HW issues with undetected wifi networks
> and kmscon rendering issues, but could cover most partitioning issues.
Yeah, but for that we need manual testing, there’s no other option.
> * This kind of client/server protocol would make even easier to
> switch to a gtk graphical installer.
Well, if we replace the explicit Newt calls with a higher-level
interface, yes.
Besides, the protocol may prove useful for accessibility because it
provides semantics.
> * Before the next release, it would be nice to fix the "installer always
> fail when restarted" issue than has been bitten lots of people.
Yes!
I’ve pushed ‘wip-installer-test’, which implements said protocol. See
screenshot below! :-)
What’s left to do now is to write an actual test that uses it.
Speaking of which, does anyone know if there’s a way to share a
Unix-domain socket between a QEMU guest and its host? (Over 9p?)
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-22 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-12 22:13 Testing the installer Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-12 23:34 ` sirgazil
2020-01-20 17:49 ` sirgazil
2020-01-14 8:02 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-01-22 22:27 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-01-23 9:41 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-01-23 11:21 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-01-23 23:07 ` Bengt Richter
2020-01-24 7:48 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-01-24 9:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-23 14:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-20 11:47 ` Jonathan Brielmaier
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2018-06-13 3:57 swedebugia
2018-06-13 19:47 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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