[Rpm-maint] Test failures for rpm-4.4.2.1-rc1 tarball

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Wendy Palm wrote:

> First off, thanks much for getting this project restarted.
>
> I downloaded the tarball, configured, compiled and ran make check and 
> came up with 5 out of 11 tests failing.
>
> The tests that fail are ba, ckL, ckC, I, and e - pretty much the last 
> half of the tests.  From the errors, it looks like problems with the 
> tests themselves - full of unknown options and non-existent files, but I 
> also cannot run a simple rpm -qa, so there are obviously other problems 
> going on.
>
> So, should the make tests be working or not?  Where I should start to 
> track this down?

Hohum :) Those tests are *ancient*, from rpm 3.0.x days mostly and long 
unused. It's mostly surprising that any of them worked at all. I had a 
quick look at the stuff and it would take more effort than it's worth to 
fix those tests. 4.4.2.1 will have the busted old tests disabled, running 
broken tests does little good to anybody.

James Olin Oden has done a far more useful looking "test-harness" for rpm, 
we'll probably want to look at that instead of dusting the old tests/ 
contents in the future.

 	- Panu -