On 2021-12-14 06:45, George Rawlinson via aur-general wrote:
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!
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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.
+1
Users are expected/encouraged to read the PKGBUILD before they run
"makepkg". They are already empowered to skip the tests if they want;
There's no reason to complicate it further.
