On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 9:08 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote: > On Friday, December 2, 2016 2:10:27 PM EST Michał Górny wrote: >> Hi, everyone. >> >> I've heard multiple times about various tinderbox projects being >> started by individuals in Gentoo. In fact, so many different projects >> that I've forgotten who was working on most of them. > > Did any of the tinderboxes test all the various USE flag combinations or just > the defaults? >
This is generally considered infeasible: https://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/06/a-tinderbox-is-not-enough-reprise/ I think continuous integration with tinderboxing is a really solid idea. However, I'm not under any illusions that it will involve testing every package with every possible set of USE flags. IMO testing with the defaults of a few common profiles is probably sufficient, and mgorny's CI approach of just doing repoman checks is already a value add. I can't remember the last time I ran into a silly lack-of-repoman issue because they don't exist in the tree I sync from, but it is obvious that many users still run into them because this is not present in the official rsync mirrors (at least the manifest issues have been sorted out). -- Rich
