Tuesday 11 December 2018

Re: autopkgtest verision deployed on production infrastructure updated

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 8:11 AM Iain Lane <laney@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> +skippable
> + The test might need to be skipped for reasons that cannot be
> + described by an existing restriction such as isolation-machine or
> + breaks-testbed, but must instead be detected at runtime. If the
> + test exits with status 77 (a convention borrowed from Automake), it
> + will be treated as though it had been skipped. If it exits with any
> + other status, its success or failure will be derived from the exit
> + status and stderr as usual. Test authors must be careful to ensure
> + that ``skippable`` tests never exit with status 77 for reasons that
> + should be treated as a failure.
>

Is it ok to use skippable for arches where the test is known to not
work? AFAIK there is no arch restriction support in d/t/control

I would then mark the test as skippable, detect the arch at runtime,
and if it's one we know it won't work, exit 77. I understand care
must be taken to check the test and make sure it doesn't exit 77 for
other reasons in that case.

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