On 21-12-14 00:07, Jan Kohnert via aur-general wrote: > Hi, > > I'm maintaining the eccodes aur package and would like to enable some extra > tests in PKGBUILD. This can be done by downloading extra testdata and put that > into the main build dir. As good as this may seem, it significantly blows up > the > build time of the package. > > So I thought about somehow let the user decide whether to run those expensive > extra tests at build. Unfortunately I could not find a recommended way of > doing > so. > > Would it be an option to check an environment variable, call it > ENABLE_EXTRA_TESTS or so, and run those stuff only if set? And otherwise just > run the usual tests without the extra data? > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks! > > -- > MfG Jan
From a packaging perspective, I run all tests that I can get my hands on. Users can then decide whether or not to enable or disable tests completely. There really isn't much of a middle ground. -- George Rawlinson
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