Enabling test requiring network on manual builds.

Hello, Perl team !

In a package I maintain outside pkg-perl (bioperl), I was curious to see the
results of the regression tests that are network-dependant and therefore
disabled at build time since the network is not available in (many of) the
machines hosting our build daemons.

I have done the following:

# Test if DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains a 'network' keyword.
# If yes, network tests will be enabled.

ifneq (,$(filter network,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
NETWORK = --network
endif

build: build-stamp
build-stamp:
dh_testdir
perl Build.PL $(NETWORK) < /dev/null # non-interactive, uses defaults
(…)

However, according to a search in the Debian package, this is specific to
Bioperl:

http://walrus.rave.org/source/search?q=network&path=Build.PL

Are there more generic mechanisms to manage network-dependant tests?

Have a nice day,

--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan


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Le Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 07:21:59PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
>
> As package maintainer, I often use "DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 debuild" or
> setup private build daemons with that flag set. My package might
> automagically "morph" into something new, and it is my own
> responsibility to double-check that the changes are sane, before
> releasing as official package.

Hi Jonas,

thank you very much for the suggestion. I now use it for the bioperl package
(maintained by the Debian Med packaging team), and just asked on -devel if
there were many other users and if it should be documented somwhere.

Have a nice day,

--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan


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